Car Bomb at Iraq Police Station Kills 17
By Sameer N. Yacoub
The Associated Press
Sunday, December 14, 2003; 10:54 AM
KHALDIYAH, Iraq - A suspected suicide bomber detonated explosives in a car outside a police station Sunday morning west of Baghdad, killing at least 17 people and wounding 33 more, the U.S. military said.
U.S. troops arriving on the scene blocked off the area and two helicopters hovered overhead. U.S. soldiers and Iraqi police later surveyed the site of the blast, which left a huge crater in the road and collapsed a large section of the building's front wall. Several destroyed cars were scattered in the street nearby.
An emergency room administrator at a hospital in the nearby city of Ramadi put the toll even higher, at 21 people killed and more than 20 injured. Many victims were Iraqi police officers and workers who were sweeping the street outside the district police office, said hospital administrator Haitham Bahar Taha.
No American soldiers were in the area when the bomb exploded and none were hurt in the blast, the U.S. military said.
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