http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/07/25/iraq.main/index.htmlBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Fourteen Iraqis were killed Monday in two separate suicide car bombings in the country's capital, police officials and the Ministry of Defense reported.
In the first attack, 12 Iraqis died and 16 were wounded when a suicide car bomb detonated near a checkpoint leading to a hotel in Baghdad, a Defense Ministry statement said. The bomber drove his vehicle into the checkpoint for the Sadeer Hotel around 6:15 a.m. (10:15 p.m. ET Sunday), police said.
The vehicle exploded near a building housing guards for the hotel. Several guards were among the casualties, police said.
The same area was targeted March 9 when a suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden garbage truck into a courtyard near the hotel. Two people died in that blast. More than two hours later Monday, a suicide car bomb was detonated at an Iraqi police commando checkpoint, killing two commandos and wounding 11, according to an official with the Baghdad emergency police.