"The latest reports put the toll at nine people killed and 20 others wounded by the car bomb attack near Mosul," the source said on condition of anonymity.
The attack occurred at about 8:00 a.m. local time (0500 GMT) when a car bomb went off at al-Ghadier compound, some 20 km east of Mosul, which houses residents from the Iraqi Shabak minority, the source said.
Women and children were among the victims, the source said, adding that the powerful blast damaged several nearby houses, 12 shops and several civilian cars.
Earlier, the source said that five people were killed and 10 others wounded by the car bomb attack.
The Iraqi Shabak people are an ethnic and Shi'ite minority group living in villages around Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, particularly, around the city of Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad.
Iraqi security forces cordoned off the scene, while police experts defused another car bomb found in the same area, the source added.
Iraqi cities have been plagued by several attacks, including suicide bombings, since the U.S. troops pulled out of the country earlier last month.
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