Bomb in Iraq kills 8 policemen, destroys station10 Jun 2007 09:47:28 GMT
Source: Reuters
By Dean Yates
BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 10 (Reuters) - A suicide truck bomb
killed eight policemen and wounded dozens more at a police
station north of Baghdad on Sunday in the latest assault by
insurgents on Iraq's security forces, police said.
They said the bomb largely destroyed the station in the
village of Albu-Ajeel in Salahaddin province. Many police
were initially trapped under rubble, including one officer
who called for help on his mobile phone, police said.
Among the dead were five officers, including two colonels,
police in the nearby provincial capital Tikrit said. More
than 30 police were among some 50 people wounded.
-snip-While several police and hospital sources said only one truck
bomb was used, another police official said a second vehicle,
a car, was believed to have exploded just after the truck
bomb detonated.
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