Three suicide bombers stormed into a police battalion headquarters on Wednesday and killed the commander in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police sources said. The sources said three militants detonated their explosive vests in the office of Lieutenant Colonel Shamil Ahmed, who headed the battalion in Mosul's western area of Bab Sinjar.
Mosul is considered the last urban stronghold of the Islamic militant group al Qaeda in Iraq. A fourth suicide bomber was killed by police before he was able to enter the main building. "At about 5.45am (0245 GMT), I heard gunshots. I jumped up from my bed and my colleague and I grabbed our pistols. When we opened the door, we saw some men, dressed in black, entering the commander's room, which is near ours," policeman Ahmed Mahmoud told Reuters.
"Suddenly, after that, there was a huge blast inside the commander's room and everything around us collapsed. I fell on the ground. I was in shock. I didn't know what had happened." Police sources, who initially said only two suicide bombers had entered the police commander's room, said they had retrieved the remains of a third bomber in the debris. One other policeman was injured in the attack, a police source said. A source at the city morgue said it had received the remains of three of the suicide bombers as well as the body of the fourth attacker, riddled with bullet wounds.
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