BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomb hit a major police station in the northern city of Mosul Thursday, killing 12 people and wounding 25, many of them motorists waiting to buy gasoline at a nearby gas station, police said.
Authorities imposed an indefinite curfew after the attack on Abi Tamam police station at 7:15 am. Police fired into the air in several parts of the city, forcing motorists and pedestrians to scurry for cover.
Police. Col. Khalaf Ismail said the bomber was trying to slam a fuel tanker he was driving into the station when he was shot dead by a policeman, igniting the fuel in his vehicle and setting off the explosives.
The station commander, Col. Abed Hamed al-Jibouri, said the massive blast caused damage to the police station and destroyed as many as 42 cars waiting to buy gasoline at the nearby gas station.
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