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Eleven Iraqi soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb disposal
accident in northern Iraq, Iraqi security officials said.
The bomb disposal unit was trying to detonate a number of bombs in
a vacant area in Bashika, east of the city of Mosul, 390 km north
of Baghdad, when the explosion took place, a senior police source
said on condition of anonymity.
Ethnically and religiously mixed Mosul remains one of Iraq's most
violent cities as the insurgent and sectarian violence unleashed by
the US-led invasion in 2003 fades across most of the country and US
forces prepare to withdraw by 2012.
Home to a volatile mix of Sunni Arabs, ethnic Kurds and other
minorities, Mosul is plagued by assassinations, roadside bombs and
attacks against Iraqi security forces.