THE BURNED OVER DISTRICT

In Mosul, the attacker detonated the pickup truck near a rear wall adjacent to the two-story headquarters, leaving the downtown building partially destroyed. U.S. Army Capt. Mark Walter, a spokesman in Mosul, said 10 policemen and two civilians were killed, while eight others were wounded.

All the roads were blocked at the time of the 6:15 a.m. blast except for one that leads to the market, and the pickup truck was allowed to pass through a checkpoint because it was carrying watermelons, policeman Mohammed Hussein Ali, 30, said.

Less than two hours later, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a parking lot outside an Iraqi army base on the outskirts of Mosul, killing 16 people and wounding seven, Walter said. Most of the victims were civilian workers arriving at the site, he said.

A third attacker strapped with a belt of explosives walked into Mosul Jumhouri Teaching Hospital at 2:15 p.m. and blew himself up in a room reserved for police officers guarding the facility, killing five policemen, police Brig. Gen. Wathiq Mohammed Tahr said.

Eight policemen and four civilians also were wounded in the attack, Walter said.

The roadside bomb struck a U.S. convoy at 10:40 a.m., killing a soldier and wounding two others in the capital, said Sgt. 1st Class David Abrams, a spokesman for Task Force Baghdad

In other violence Sunday:

-A mortar round exploded at a house in eastern Baghdad, killing a woman and two children, police Lt. Col. Foad Assad said. One child was wounded.

-Gunmen killed police Col. Riyad Abdul Karim, an assistant district police director of emergency services, at his apartment in another neighborhood in eastern Baghdad, police Lt. Col. Hassan Challoub said.

-A suicide car bomb struck an Iraqi police convoy by a checkpoint near the oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, wounding four police officers, police Brig. Gen. Sarhad Qadr said.

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