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| Car bomb hits Iraq police station, 24 killed |
| 2011-05-07 |
[Pak Daily Times] A car boom went kaboom!on Friday near a cop shoppe south of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... where, a day earlier, a suicide kaboomer killed 24 coppers, a security official said. No casualties were immediately reported as a result of the kaboom, just 165 feet from the bombing on Thursday that also maimed 72 people. A second explosives-packed vehicle was also found near the blast site in Hilla but security forces defused it, according to a police lieutenant. Thursday's bombing was the deadliest to hit Iraq in more than a month as security chiefs braced for Dire Revenge™ attacks by al Qaeda following the death of the late Osama bin Laden ... who has made the transition back to dust... in a US commando raid in Pakistain on Sunday. "Twenty-four coppers died, including five captains and two lieutenants, and 72 were maimed," said the director of Hilla's main surgical hospital. He added that, of the maimed, 25 remained at death's door. Thursday's bombing left a six-foot crater and badly damaged the cop shoppe in the centre of the mainly Shia city, capital of Babil province, in addition to several nearby houses and shops. No group has yet grabbed credit for the attack, but security forces nationwide began tightening security in the wake of the bombing. |
| Posted by:Fred |