Car bomb kills at least 4 in Mosul

MOSUL, Iraq, July 11 (UPI) -- At least four people were killed Saturday when a car bomb exploded in a market in Mosul in northern Iraq, authorities said.

The bomb injured 40 people, the BBC reported, citing police sources.

Mosul, an ethnically diverse city 250 miles northwest of Baghdad, has continued to be hit by violence as most of Iraq has become more peaceful.

The bomb Saturday went off in an area where most of the residents are Shabak, a minority group whose members consider themselves to be Kurdish and follow religious practices combining elements of Islam with other beliefs.