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Eight killed in Samarra suicide tanker bomb blast
 (Xinhua) At least eight civilians were killed and some 40 injured when a suicide bomber exploded his fuel tanker near a police headquarters in central Samarra in Salahudin province, the police said Sunday.'A suicide bomber driving a fuel tanker, rigged with explosives, tried to hit the heavily fortified police headquarters in Samarra, 120 km north of Baghdad, but failed to approach his target,' a police officer told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The driver drove his tanker to a nearby market when fired upon by the security guards of the headquarters and blew it up, the source said. After the explosion, gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns opened fire on the police guards outside the headquarters, but fled the scene after U.S. helicopter gunship came in aid of the police, he said. Posted by: Fred 2007-10-15 |
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