Car bombs in Northern Iraqi city kill 5 people

BAGHDAD: Iraqi officials say two car bombs have exploded in the northern city of Mosul, killing five people and wounding 18. An army officer says the first explosion occurred on Wednesday when a parked car bomb went off next to an army patrol, killing three soldiers and wounding three civilians. He says the second blast came fifteen minutes later, when another parked car bomb exploded in a nearby. That explosion killed two civilians and wounded 15. The target was unclear. A police officer and a doctor confirmed the causality