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Police Chief Dies In Bombing

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The Washington Post

Published: January 25, 2008

BAGHDAD - A provincial police chief was killed by a suicide bomber in the northern city of Mosul on Thursday while inspecting the scene of a massive attack that killed 38 people a day earlier, signs that the city has become a crucial hub for the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaida in Iraq.

Duraid Kashmoula, the governor of Nineveh province, said the number of people killed in Wednesday's attack had increased to 38 because additional bodies had been recovered and because survivors had died of their wounds. Mosul was placed under curfew Thursday as angry mobs accused Iraqi soldiers of causing the Wednesday blast when they improperly detonated a weapons cache. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki sent a task force to investigate the incident as lawmakers called on the government to provide aid to the region.

Survivors of the first explosion were digging through the rubble at about 10 a.m. Thursday when Brig. Gen. Saleh Mohammed Hassan, the provincial police commander, arrived to survey the 100 or so houses damaged in the blast.

A furious crowd thronged around Hassan, throwing stones at him and American and Iraqi soldiers on the scene, in the Zenjeeli district of western Mosul, witnesses said. Hassan was heading for his car when a man approached and detonated his explosive vest.

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