Reports: Indefinite curfew imposed in Mosul as start of 'new security plan'

U.S. forces interrogate a man as his family watches in a pre-dawn raid this morning in Mosul.

The northern Iraqi city of Mosul has been placed under curfew from Thursday at 8:00 pm till further notice, Ninewa TV said.

"Ninewa governor Duraid Mohammed Kashmula imposed curfew from Thursday 8:00 pm till further notice," the official Ninewa TV said.

The local channel did not give the cause of the curfew but Ninewa police chief General Wathiq Mohammed al-Hamdani told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) "the imposition of the curfew was made to start a new security plan."

Mosul, capital city of Ninewa province, is 402 km north of Iraq.

From VOI

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