MOSUL, May 31, 2009 (AFP) - An Iraqi sports reporter was killed and a television host wounded on Sunday when a bomb attached to the victim's car exploded in the northern city of Mosul, a police official told AFP.

The blast killed Alaa Abdul Wahab, a correspondent for the Al-Baghdadia channel and a leading newspaper journalist, and wounded Dr Sultan Jurjis, a university academic and sports presenter with a rival TV station.

"Mr Abdul Wahab was killed and Dr Jurjis was injured when a sticky bomb put in the former's car exploded," said a Mosul police official.

The bomb went off in Al-Shurta district in the north of Mosul, 370 kilometres (230 miles) north of Baghdad.

Mosul remains plagued by violence despite security improvements in many other areas of Iraq. Elements from Al-Qaeda and former insurgents who have fled other parts of the country regularly carry out attacks in the city.

In Baghdad on Sunday evening two members of a television crew were wounded when a bomb attached to their vehicle blew up while the crew was reporting in the Azamiyah neighbourhood for Iraqiya channel, a defence ministry official said.

An interior ministry official said a cameraman and a technician were hurt, along with a member of the public.

Iraqiya said one of its wounded employees was in a "serious" condition.