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| Policemen killed in Iraq suicide bombing |
| 2011-05-06 |
| [Al Jazeera] At least 15 coppers have been killed in Iraq after a jacket wallah blew up a vehicle packed with explosives outside a cop shoppe in Hilla, a city 100km south of Storied Baghdad, ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... officials say. Another 50 officers were maimed after the bomber rammed his car into the entrance of the police headquarters to unleash a powerful blast while coppers were changing work shifts on Thursday. Among those killed in the blast, which occurred at 7am local time, were a police captain and a first lieutenant. A police official said the kaboom badly damaged several sections of the cop shoppe and knocked over some of the concrete barriers that surround the building. Several nearby houses and shops were also seriously damaged. Security forces cordoned off the blast site, prohibiting journalists from entering the area. On Monday, four people were maimed after a sticky bomb attached to a car went kaboom!in a parking lot in Hilla. Hilla, a predominantly Shia area, lies just beyond the edge of a confessionally mixed area south of Storied Baghdad that was dubbed "triangle of death" during the sectarian bloodshed that peaked in Iraq in 2006 and 2007. Violence is down in Iraq from its peak, but attacks remain common. A total of 211 Iraqis were killed in violence in April, according to official figures. |
| Posted by:Fred |