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| A car bomb has killed four people and injured 40 at a market on the outskirts of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police sources told the BBC. | A car bomb has killed four people and injured 40 at a market on the outskirts of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police sources told the BBC. |
| All of those killed or injured in the blast in Kukchali, a mixed Sunni-Shia area to the east of Mosul, are believed to be civilians. | All of those killed or injured in the blast in Kukchali, a mixed Sunni-Shia area to the east of Mosul, are believed to be civilians. |
| Mosul, with its volatile ethnic and religious mix, has seen numerous attacks by insurgents. | Mosul, with its volatile ethnic and religious mix, has seen numerous attacks by insurgents. |
| The blast comes less than two weeks after US troops left Iraqi cities. | The blast comes less than two weeks after US troops left Iraqi cities. |
| On Wednesday two car bombs went off outside Shia mosques in Mosul, killing at least 14 people and injuring about 30. | |
| The city of about 1.8 million people, which lies about 400km (250 miles) north-west of the capital Baghdad, is mainly populated by Iraqi Arabs with Kurdish and other ethnic minorities. | |
| US and Iraqi officials have described Mosul as al-Qaeda in Iraq's last major urban stronghold in the country. |