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Bomber Kills 25 in Baghdad Suicide Attack
 Twenty-five people were killed yesterday when a suicide bomber blew up a truck full of explosives outside a police station in Baghdad, Iraqi officials said, but the US military put the death toll at 40. âThe bodies of the victims, many of whom were policemen, were completely burned by the blast,â an Interior Ministry official said, adding that 33 others were wounded.The US military, citing initial Iraqi police reports, said 40 people were killed, but police said they were uncertain where the figure came from. The US military said the suicide bomber used a semi-truck loaded with 220 kilograms of explosives. Twenty-two cars, 10 shops and a residential building were set ablaze in the massive explosion outside Al-Rashid police station in the Al-Mashtel neighborhood in the southeast of the capital. âIt appears that the bomber who was driving the truck wanted to enter the police station, but for some reason the explosives detonated 20 meters before the police station,â the official said, adding that US and Iraqi security forces had cordoned off the area. It was the deadliest attack in Iraq since a suicide bomber blew himself up near a Shiite mosque on July 16 in the central city of Musayyib, igniting a fuel tanker and killing nearly 100 people. Posted by: Fred 2005-07-25 |
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