Iraqi Killed In Mortar Attack In Northern Iraq

MOSUL, Iraq, Sept 1 (AFP) - An Iraqi policeman was killed and 18 people wounded Wednesday in a mortar attack on a government building in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police, the US military and medical sources said.
The police officer died and a second policeman and 17 civilians were wounded when insurgents lobbed mortars at Nineveh province's government building in central Mosul, the US military said.
"Four shells landed just outside the walls of the building and other inside the compound," Colonel Muzahem Abdullah Khalaf al-Shemari told AFP.
Earlier, hospital and morgue officials confirmed that one Iraqi was killed and 12 wounded, one of them seriously.
It was the first such attack to hit the compound since Niniveh governor Dureid Kashmula's predecessor was assassinated in July.
Elsewhere in northern Iraq, an Iraqi Kurdish woman and a child were seriously wounded when a mortar hit on a Kurdish refugee camp by the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, police chief Major General Shirku Shakir said.
The mortar exploded in the Felak Legion camp, home to 3,000 Kurdish refugee families who had returned to the region after being expelled from their homes by Saddam Hussein's regime.
Medical and security sources in Kirkuk also reported that two shepherds were killed Wednesday by the accidental explosion of what was thought to be an old bomb some 90 kilometres (55 miles) west of the oil-rich city.