Iraq suicide car bomb kills 24 policemen
IRAQ: A suicide bomber who drove his bomb-filled car into a police
station south of Baghdad killed 24 policemen and wounded 72 others,
according to an updated toll from a medical official on Friday.
Thursday morning's attack in Hilla, 95 kilometres (60 miles) south of
the capital, was the deadliest to hit Iraq in more than a month as
security chiefs braced for revenge attacks by Al-Qaeda following the
death of Osama bin Laden in a US special forces raid in Pakistan on
Sunday.
"24 policemen died, including five captains and two lieutenants, and
72 were wounded," said the director of Hilla's main surgical hospital,
speaking on condition of anonymity. HILLA, Friday, AFP |
