Iraq suicide bomb kills 7

MOSUL: A suicide bomber blew himself up close to a passing army patrol in northern Iraq on Saturday evening, killing seven people, including four soldiers, security and medical officials said.

Another 15 people were wounded, two of them soldiers, in the attack at the entrance to a popular market in the main northern city of Mosul at 7:30 pm (1630 GMT), a security official and a doctor at Mosul's main hospital said.

The death brought to 12 the total number of people killed in Iraq on Saturday. Five people, including a judge and an industry ministry official, died in separate attacks in a town on Baghdad's outskirts. (AFP)