Car Bomb Kills 20 at Iraq Police Station
Posted on: Sunday, 14 December 2003, 06:00 CST
A car bomb exploded Sunday morning at a police station in a town west of Baghdad, causing about 20 casualties, according to witnesses and the U.S. military. No U.S. soldiers were hurt, the military said.
The attack in Khaldiyah, about 50 miles west of Baghdad, took place at 8:40 a.m. local time near the main police station, witnesses said.
About 20 people were injured in the blast, said a U.S. officer at the scene. It was not immediately clear if anybody had been killed.
No American soldiers were in the area when the bomb exploded, said the officer who asked not to be named.
U.S. troops called to the scene immediately blocked off the area and two helicopters were seen hovering overhead.
It was not clear whether the attack was a suicide bombing. U.S. troops have been targeted by suicide bombers three times in the past week in attacks that left dozens of soldiers injured and one killed.
Khaldiyah is located in the so-called Sunni Triangle west and north of the capital, where attacks against occupation troops and their Iraqi allies have been fiercest.
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