Iraq: 10 killed in car bomb
2004-10-23 11:36
Ramadi - At least 10 policemen were killed and another 40 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a police training centre in the western Iraqi town of Baghdadi on Saturday, police said.
"A suicide bomber drove into the academy where police were training and blew himself up," said Mujtaba Ahmed al-Hiti, police chief in the neighbouring town of Hit.
Police were gathered at the academy at about 07:30 for a training course when the bomber struck.
Baghdadi is a town in the restive province of Al-Anbar about 20km west of the Iraqi capital.
Police and other members of Iraq's security forces are a favourite target in a bloody insurgency that flared up in the aftermath of last year's United States-led invasion and which US and Iraqi officials are desperate to crush.
- AFP