KurdistanObserver.com   Car Bomb Kills 12 Peshmerga in Ninewa Ninewa, Apr 14, (VOI) - 12 members of the Kurdish Peshmerga guards were killed in a car bomb explosion, the fifth of its type, in the volatile northern province of Ninewa on Monday, a police source said. “A car bomb went off against a carrier vehicle of Kurdistan region Peshmerga guards, near the border town of Rabia, west Mosul, leaving 12 Peshmerga guards killed and two others wounded,” a Ninewa police source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). Rabia border town is the main gateway to the Iraqi northern province and Kurdistan region to Syria. It is also a town linking between Arab- predominated villages and the self-autonomous Kurdish region. Earlier, Ninewa has seen a spate of four car bombs, leaving over five civilians killed and 37 others wounded according to security and medic sources. Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north Baghdad.       Copyright © 2002, Kurdistan Observer