More than 50 Iraqis died today in violence including a car bombing that killed 25 people in the third major attack on a police station in three days.

A car bomb explosion at a major crimes unit in central Baghdad killed at least 15 people and wounded more than 30 today, said police Lieutenant Colonel Falah al-Mohammadawi.

TWO suicide bombers wearing police uniforms and holding security passes tried to attack National Police Day celebrations yesterday, with police shooting one to death and the other exploding his vest, killing 29 people.

A Black Hawk helicopter believed to be carrying 12 people crashed in northern Iraq and killed everyone aboard, while five US Marines were slain in separate weekend attacks, the military said today.

A car bomb detonated near one of the main gates leading into the fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad, killing three foreigners and wounded two others, an interior ministry official said.