Twin blasts kill 14 at Baghdad police station

04/22/2007

April 22, 2007 08:28pm
Article from: Agence France-Presse


TWO car bombs have exploded at a Baghdad police station, killing 14 people and wounding scores, as the US military moved to wall in the capital's warring factions behind concrete barriers.

In a mid-morning attack, two car bombs struck outside the Al-Bayaa police station in the southwest of the city, the latest in a recent spate of deadly attacks aimed at undermining a joint US-Iraq security strategy.

Six of the 14 killed were policemen, security officials said, while another 90 people were wounded, including 40 policemen. The blast tore a massive crater in the road and devastated at least two civilian houses alongside.

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