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Double-blast suicide bomber 'kills eight' in Iraq
A double-blast suicide bomber targeting a military checkpoint and labourers killed eight people on Monday in the former Sunni rebel bastion of Fallujah, Iraqi police and medics said.Twenty-eight other civilians were wounded in the blasts, which occurred within minutes of each other at around 9:00 am (0600 GMT) in the centre of Fallujah, 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Baghdad, officials said. Captain Bashar Mohammed, a police station chief in Fallujah, said the bomber parked his explosives-packed vehicle near a military checkpoint in the centre of the city. The assailant then walked into a group of labourers and detonated his explosives vest. The car bomb exploded shortly afterwards, again without causing any military casualties. Posted by: ed 2010-03-15 |
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