BAGHDAD (AFP) - A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-filled car against the convoy of an Iraqi general in the main northern city of Mosul on Wednesday, killing seven people, the officer, who was unharmed, told AFP.

"The bomber drove his car into my convoy in the Al-Faisaliya neighbourhood of east Mosul," General Riyadh Jalal Tauffiq, head of security operations in the city and its surrounding province of Nineveh told AFP.

"When my guards tried to arrest him, he detonated his car. Seven people were killed, including five civilians," he said, adding that 17 people were wounded. The other two killed were his guards.

Earlier, the US military said 28 people were wounded in what it said was a dual car bomb attack against the general.

It said three Iraqi soldiers were among those wounded.

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