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Explosion rocks Baghdad police station, 10 dead
Baghdad, Oct 09: A suicide car bomber hit a police station in northeast Baghdad at 9.30 am today, killing 10 people including two people in the car, police and the US military said.
Baghdad, Oct 09: A suicide car bomber hit a police station in northeast Baghdad at 9.30 am today, killing 10 people including two people in the car, police and the US military said.
Capt Sean Kirley, of the 2nd Armoured Cavalry, said three policemen and five civilians were killed. Iraqi police Capt Bassem Sami said there were two people in the car that
exploded. He said 28 people were wounded.
Police Maj Majid Abdel-Hameed said the car was a white Oldsmobile. The driver drove through the police compound gate under, was fired at by officers and then detonated the bomb at 9.30 am local time. A dozen of ambulances raced toward the facility in the Shiite Muslim slum known as Sadr City. The attack happened just as policemen were lining up in the courtyard of the facility for the morning role call.
There were many mangled police cars at the bomb site and much debris in the big courtyard in front of the one-story building. Scores of US soldiers surrounded the building in Humvees.
A mosque near the scene was blaring warnings to the thousands of residents who had gathered at the station to leave the area for fear of a second booby-trapped car.
Police Maj Majid Abdel-Hameed said the car was a white Oldsmobile. The driver drove through the police compound gate under, was fired at by officers and then detonated the bomb at 9.30 am local time. A dozen of ambulances raced toward the facility in the Shiite Muslim slum known as Sadr City. The attack happened just as policemen were lining up in the courtyard of the facility for the morning role call.
There were many mangled police cars at the bomb site and much debris in the big courtyard in front of the one-story building. Scores of US soldiers surrounded the building in Humvees.
A mosque near the scene was blaring warnings to the thousands of residents who had gathered at the station to leave the area for fear of a second booby-trapped car.