Nine security officials killed in car bomb attacks in Mosul

Baghdad: At least nine security officials were killed and three others injured on Saturday in car bomb attacks claimed by ISIS or Daesh in Iraq's Mosul.

Iraqi security official Safa al-Behadli said Daesh detonated four explosive laden vehicles at a location where the police forces were stationed in Mosul's west side, Anadolu Agency reports.

Two military vehicles were destroyed in the car bomb attacks.

U.S. led coalition forces is providing air and ground support to the Iraqi forces for the offensive in the country's largest northern city ,fell to Islamic State in June 2014.