Three Wounded In Car Bomb In Northern Iraq

MOSUL, Iraq, Aug 26 (AFP) - Three people were wounded when a car bomb exploded on the main road east from Iraq's northern city of Mosul as a senior political official was driving past, police said Thursday.
Ahmed Peru was unharmed in the attack, but one of his bodyguards and two other civilians were wounded when the vehicle exploded at 6:00 pm (1400 GMT) at Al-Kokachli, said Colonel Muzahin Abdullah al-Shillari.
Peru is a senior member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), one of the two main Kurdish parties that control northern Iraq.