http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/RUS231985.htmNASSIRIYA, Iraq, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Iraqi traffic policeman Ahmed Nasser was standing nearby as a fuel tanker drove towards an Italian police base in Nassiriya. Seconds later, a huge explosion destroyed the calm the town has enjoyed since the war.
"I saw the tanker coming fast over the bridge. I couldn't see any security police outside the gates of the base. The tanker zig-zagged across the road so it could get through the gate," said Nasser, 30, nursing a broken arm in hospital.
"Then it exploded."
At least 18 Italians and nine Iraqis died in the suicide attack, which the British military said involved the truck and a civilian car.
The Italian dead were 12 Carabinieri military police, four army soldiers and two civilians. At least 20 Italians were wounded. It was Italy's highest military death toll since World War Two.
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