FOUR KILLED, 50 WOUNDED IN SUSPECTED IRAQ SUICIDE ATTACK.

(From ONASA News Agency)

MOSUL, Iraq, Aug 1 (ONASA - AFP) - At least four people were killed and more than 50 wounded when a suspected suicide car bomb exploded in northern Iraq on Sunday, hours after US air strikes and clashes with insurgents in Fallujah killed 10 other people. "A car bomb exploded at 8:05 (0405 GMT) in front of the police station in Summer, eastern Mosul," said local police Captain Nidam Mohammed. Iraq's fledgling US-backed police and security forces have become frequent targets of bombings and shootings by insurgents. "There was a driver in the car. He sped up at great speed, so police opened fire to try to stop him and the car, a Japanese four-wheel drive, exploded before reaching the police station," Mohammed added. The attack came four days after 70 people were killed in a bombing outside a police unit in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, and less than a week after four died in another suicide attack outside the US military base in Mosul. The US military said two Iraqi civilians and two Iraqi policemen were killed in Sunday's bombing. An official at the morgue confirmed four bodies had been received. Medics at the two main hospitals in Mosul said a total of 51 police and civilians had been admitted with injuries following the blast, which ripped through the entrance of the police station and gutted nearby cars. In Baghdad, at least one Iraqi was killed and three wounded, including a driver for the BBC, when a bomb narrowly missed a US convoy during the morning rush hour, the Al-Kindi hospital and the British news corporation said. In Fallujah, US air strikes and clashes on the ground between US marines and insurgents continued overnight in the fiercely anti-US Sunni Muslim bastion, west of Baghdad. The city has proved one of the most intractable problems and dangerous areas of operations for US marines based in Iraq. "We have 10 killed and 40 injured from both the bombardment and the earlier clashes," said Doctor Rafih al-Issawi, director of Fallujah's general hospital. Many of the injured were women and children. Insurgents attacked three military ...