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War on Terror: Twenty Killed at Baghdad Police Station By Lorry Bomb

Posted on: Monday, 25 July 2005, 06:00 CDT

A suicide lorry bomber targeted a Baghdad police station yesterday, killing at least 20 and wounding 30.

The attacker, driving a lorry loaded with explosives, blew up his deadly charge at the Rashad police station in east Mashtal at 2.50pm.

Captain Mahir Abdul Satar said the vehicle slammed into concrete barriers surrounding the police station.

Police officials said the attack left six vehicles in flames.

Six cars, including two police cars, were seen burning and several nearby shops were damaged, police officials said. Body parts lay scattered throughout the explosion area.

Insurgents have regularly targeted Iraq's police and security forces in attempts to further destabilise the country.

Earlier in the day, scattered attacks across Baghdad left three dead, including two police officers, according to hospital officials. A police lieutenant colonel was also killed in northern Iraq.

Lt Col Imad Hatam, deputy director of the Kazimiyah police station in northern Baghdad, was killed by unknown gunmen as he was leaving his home for work, confirmed Dr Muhannad Jawad of Yarmouk Hospital.

Elsewhere, police Lt Col Nouredine Raouf was killed by gunmen in Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, officials there said.

Meanwhile, two mortar shells fell near the Ministry of the Interior and the police academy in central Baghdad, killing one officer, a police official said under condition of anonymity.

Gunmen also shot to death Saad Kadhim, a captain in the new Iraqi intelligence service, in the western Baghdad neighbourhood of Jihad, according to Captain Talib Thamir of the Amil police station.

A Baghdad city employee was also seriously wounded in a drive-by shooting in western Baghdad as he headed to work, said Thamir. It was unclear who the assailants were, he said.

Police also reported a former member of a local city council was gunned down on Saturday in front of his home in Dujail, 50 miles miles north of Baghdad

Source: Birmingham Post; Birmingham (UK)

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