Scores die as bombs hit police in Iraq
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October 13, 2011, Thursday
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A SLEW of bombings targeted Iraqi police in Baghdad yesterday morning, including attacks by two suicide bombers who tried to ram their vehicles through police station gates.
Iraqi officials said at least 28 people died and dozens were injured.
In the southern Karradah neighborhood, 14 people died and 28 were injured by a suicide car bomb attack on a police station, said Baghdad police officials.
In the mainly Shiite neighborhood of Hurriyah, a suicide car bomber targeted a police station and killed eight people. Twenty-seven others were injured.
Officials said both bombers exploded their vehicles at the outer entrance leading into the police stations.
"The scene was horrific," said Salim Ghadban. "We saw terrified people, some injured, running in our direction, and we rushed to the attacked police station to see burned bodies and charred cars. We helped cover the bodies until ambulances arrived."
The attack in Hurriyah was especially remarkable because the neighborhood is a stronghold of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. It is almost entirely surrounded by blast walls, and access is restricted through four entrances manned by the Iraqi army.
Meanwhile, a car bomb also targeted a police patrol in southern Ilaam district, killing at least three, while a roadside bomb hit an army patrol in Hurriya, killing one civilian and injuring 12 people, mostly soldiers, police said.
Two police officers were killed and seven people wounded when a roadside bomb hit another police patrol in the mainly Shiite Washash district in western Baghdad.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but such attacks are usually the work of Sunni militant groups such as al-Qaida.
Iraqi officials said at least 28 people died and dozens were injured.
In the southern Karradah neighborhood, 14 people died and 28 were injured by a suicide car bomb attack on a police station, said Baghdad police officials.
In the mainly Shiite neighborhood of Hurriyah, a suicide car bomber targeted a police station and killed eight people. Twenty-seven others were injured.
Officials said both bombers exploded their vehicles at the outer entrance leading into the police stations.
"The scene was horrific," said Salim Ghadban. "We saw terrified people, some injured, running in our direction, and we rushed to the attacked police station to see burned bodies and charred cars. We helped cover the bodies until ambulances arrived."
The attack in Hurriyah was especially remarkable because the neighborhood is a stronghold of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. It is almost entirely surrounded by blast walls, and access is restricted through four entrances manned by the Iraqi army.
Meanwhile, a car bomb also targeted a police patrol in southern Ilaam district, killing at least three, while a roadside bomb hit an army patrol in Hurriya, killing one civilian and injuring 12 people, mostly soldiers, police said.
Two police officers were killed and seven people wounded when a roadside bomb hit another police patrol in the mainly Shiite Washash district in western Baghdad.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but such attacks are usually the work of Sunni militant groups such as al-Qaida.
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