Suicide bomber attacks bus in Mosul

A suicide car bomber today exploded his vehicle alongside a bus carrying Kurdish peshmerga militiamen in Mosul, killing at least seven and injuring eight, a Kurdish official said.

Saadi Ahmed, a Patriotic Union of Kurdistan official, said the peshmerga were in a bus travelling from Kurdish-controlled Irbil province in northern Iraq to Mosul, a city 360 kilometres (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad.