MOSUL, Iraq - A suicide attack in the main northern Iraqi city of Mosul killed the head of the local anti-corruption authority and two of his guards Sunday, officials said.
"General Walid Kachmoula was killed in the attack," Duraid Kachmoula, the governor of Nineveh province of which Mosul is the capital, told AFP, providing no other details.
Earlier, police officer Salaheddin Mohammed Ali said: "A suicide bomber blew himself up inside the headquarters of the commission of public integrity, causing victims."
A source at the interior ministry in Baghdad said later that two guards were also killed in the attack which occurred around 10:00 am (0700 GMT).
The bomber slipped in with a false badge and made his way to General Walid's office where he detonated his charge, said Mustapha Wahid, a security official at the building.
The commission is responsible for fighting corruption in the local administration. Its offices are in the city centre, the scene of several insurgent attacks in recent weeks.
Separately, police in Mosul recovered the bodies of two men who had been shot in the head and chest after having their hands bound, officer Mohammed Fathi said, adding that the corpses' identities were still unclear.
Dozens of Iraqi soldiers were kidnapped and executed in Mosul in November and December, and their bodies dumped on the streets.
Fifty-one people were killed and 77 wounded in a suicide bombing in a Shiite funeral tent in Mosul earlier this month.
03/20/2005 14:40 GMT