MOSUL, Iraq, Aug 4 (SPA) - At least 18 people died inviolence in northern Iraq on Friday, police said, including asenior policeman in the country's third largest city Mosul. A suicide bomber killed 10 people when he drove his carpacked with explosives on to a sports field in Hadhar, 90 km (55miles) to the south of Mosul, where a police team were playing alocal side. Police said the car ploughed into a group of policespectators, killing three policemen and seven civilians. Twelvepeople were wounded. In Mosul, police Colonel Jassim Muhammad Bilal and twobodyguards were killed by a car bomb in the ethnically diversecity, which is 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. At least one more policeman and four militants were killedin Mosul during six hours of heavy clashes between insurgentsand U.S. and Iraqi security forces, police sources was quoted as saying by Reuters.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/380692