Six killed by car bomb near Iraq's Mosul

The blast was reported in the northern Iraqi town of Qayyara. (File/AFP)

• No group immediately claimed responsibility
• Health official said the death toll might rise as some of the wounded were in a critical condition

Al-QAYYARAH, Iraq: A car bomb attack Tuesday killed six people and wounded 26 more at a market in a town near Daesh's former Iraqi capital of Mosul, medics said.
Images of the scene posted on social media showed a devastated market in the town of Al Qayyarah, 60 kilometres (40 miles) south of Mosul, with wounded being evacuated as bystanders watched on.
"The attack killed six people and wounded 26," doctor Abdelmoneim Majid al-Tabu, who heads the town's health service, told AFP.
Al Qayyarah was held by Daesh after they swept through northern Iraq in 2014.
The militants were ousted from the town in 2016, almost a year before they were driven out of Mosul.
While Daesh has now lost all its urban footholds in Iraq it retains the capacity to launch deadly attacks, with cells operating in desert areas along the border with Syria.