Car Bomb Kills 10 at Baghad Police Station

A suicide car bomber hit a police station in northeast Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing 10 people including two people in the car, police and the U.S. military said.

Capt. Sean Kirley, of the 2nd Armored Cavalry, said three policemen and five civilians were killed. Iraqi police Capt. Bassem Sami said there were two people in the car that exploded. He said 28 people were wounded.

Police Maj. Majid Abdel-Hameed said the car was a white Oldsmobile. The driver drove through the police compound gate, was fired at by officers and then detonated the bomb.

A dozen of ambulances raced toward the facility in the Shiite Muslim slum known as Sadr City. The attack happened just as policemen were lining up in the courtyard of the facility for the morning role call.

There were many mangled police cars at the bomb site and much debris in the big courtyard in front of the one-story building.

Scores of U.S. soldiers surrounded the building in Humvees.

A mosque near the scene was blaring warnings to the thousands of residents who had gathered at the station to leave the area for fear of a second booby-trapped car.

“It was a huge blast and everything became dark from the debris and sand. I was thrown to the ground,” said Mohammed Adnan, 35, who sells watermelons from a rickety stand across from the blast.

Also opposite the police station, Fakhriya Jarallah, who sells vegetables, said two of her sons were repairing the outside wall of the compound when the blast occurred.

“I ran across the road like a mad woman to find out what happened to my sons. But thanks to God they are both safe,” she said.