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| Iraqi police chief dies in ambush | Iraqi police chief dies in ambush |
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| An Iraqi police chief has died in an apparent ambush as he toured the site of an earlier blast that killed 20 people in the northern city of Mosul. | An Iraqi police chief has died in an apparent ambush as he toured the site of an earlier blast that killed 20 people in the northern city of Mosul. |
| The US military said Saleh Mohammed Hassan was killed by a suicide bomber. He was fleeing the area after gunmen opened fire on his convoy, reports say. | |
| The authorities have imposed a curfew across Ninevah province. | |
| About 150 bystanders were hurt on Wednesday in a huge blast as troops | |
| were surrounding a block of flats. | |
| The ethnically mixed city of Mosul has seen an upsurge in violence in the past year. | The ethnically mixed city of Mosul has seen an upsurge in violence in the past year. |
| Correspondents say the increased violence appears to be a consequence of the offensive by US-led forces in and around Baghdad, with Sunni Arab insurgents believed to have transferred their operations further north. | Correspondents say the increased violence appears to be a consequence of the offensive by US-led forces in and around Baghdad, with Sunni Arab insurgents believed to have transferred their operations further north. |
| Searching for survivors | |
| The BBC's Jonny Dymond in Baghdad says that, all of a sudden, the largest and most divided city in the north appears to be on the edge. | |
| The attacker was wearing an explosives vest under an Iraqi police uniform, a police statement said. | |
| Iraqi and American military forces had been clearing away the rubble from Wednesday's blast searching for bodies or survivors. | |
| Brig Gen Hassan, the director of police for Ninevah province, was touring the area when it was ambushed by gunmen. | |
| About 35 buildings were damaged or destroyed in the earlier explosion when what was thought to be an arms cache levelled a three-storey apartment block in one of the poorer areas of western Mosul. | |
| The explosion came as Iraqi troops surrounded the building following a tip-off about a suspected arms cache inside. |