Car bomb claims seven lives in Iraq's Mosul

BAGHDAD, Oct 23 (Agencies): At least seven people were killed and some 20 others wounded on Tuesday in a car bomb explosion in a town in south of Mosul, the capital of Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, the Iraqi military said.

The blast took place in the morning when a booby-trapped car went off at a popular market in the town of Qayyara, some 50 km south of Mosul, the Iraqi Army Colonel Rayadh al-Juboury in the town told Xinhua.

Health official said the death toll might rise as some of the wounded were in a critical condition.

No group immediately claimed responsibility.

Iraq declared victory over Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) in December, dislodging the group from all territories it held after its self-proclaimed caliphate, which also composed part of Syria, collapsed earlier in 2017.