The first attack targeted a police checkpoint in the neighbourhood and moments later, the second blast hit a nearby street crowded with civilians, the officials said yesterday, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorised to talk to reporters.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but it bore the hallmarks of the Islamic State group, which has claimed similar bombings in the past.
The attack comes as Iraqi forces, backed by the US-led coalition, are slowly moving in on the last neighbourhoods held by the Islamic State group in Mosul, Iraq's second- largest city.
Coalition officials say they believe a few hundred IS fighters remain in Mosul, holding hundreds of thousands of civilians as human shields.
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Iraqi commanders have said they hope to fully liberate the city before the holy month of Ramadan, which is to begin at the end of next week.
IS overran Mosul nearly three years ago in a blitz that brought nearly a third of Iraqi territory under the Sunni militant group's control. Since then a massive influx of weapons and training from Iran as well as a US-led campaign of coalition airstrikes has clawed back more than half of the territory IS once held.
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