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| Insurgents Strike at Iraqi Police; 30 Dead |
| 2005-02-07 |
| Insurgents struck Iraq's security forces Monday with suicide bombs and mortar fire, killing more than 30 people as violence escalated after last week's election... Monday's deadliest attack occurred in Baqouba, where a suicide car bomber exploded his vehicle outside the gates of a provincial police headquarters, killing 15 people and wounding 17, police Col. Mudhahar al-Jubouri said. Many victims were looking for jobs as policemen, al-Jubouri said. In Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, a suicide bomber wandered into a crowd of security personnel at a hospital and blew himself up, killing 12 people and wounding seven, U.S. officials said. Insurgents shelled a police station in Mosul with more than a dozen mortar rounds Monday, killing three civilians, police said. And one Iraqi was killed and four others wounded when mortar shells exploded near the City Council building in Samarra, hospital officials said. In Ramadi, an insurgent center west of Baghdad, the body of an Iraqi National Guardsman was found on a city street. Witnesses said he has been shot. Separate postings on a Web site claimed responsibility for the Baqouba and Mosul attacks in the name of al-Qaida in Iraq, the group led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The claims could not be verified... |
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