MOSUL, Iraq - Four Iraqi commandos were killed and five wounded Thursday when a suicide bomber detonated a car laden with explosives next to a patrol in the northern city of Mosul, police colonel Mohammed Nuri Khalaf said.
The commandos were members of the interior ministry's crack Lightning Brigade. Three of the five wounded were seriously hurt, Dr Seddik Fares of the city's Salam hospital told AFP.
05/05/2005 16:06 GMT