Bomb At Blast Site Kills Iraq Police Chief

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Source: CBS News/AP

Suicide Bomber Kills Mosul Chief After Ambush Touring Wreckage Of Earlier Attack

(CBS/AP) A suicide bomber struck officials fleeing an ambush in Mosul, northern Iraq on Thursday, killing the provincial police chief and two other officers and wounding U.S. and one Iraqi soldier, the military said.

The attack occurred at the site of a blast that killed at least 34 people and wounded 224 the day before. The toll was raised Thursday from a previous total of 18 killed.

The Thursday attacker was wearing an explosives vest under an Iraqi police uniform when he struck, killing Brig. Gen. Saleh Mohammed Hassan, the director of police for Ninevah province, of which Mosul is the capital, according to the statement.

The Iraqi army was securing the area, and a curfew was put in place across Mosul in the wake of the suicide attack.

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