Suicide bomber kills 12 in police station attack

A SUICIDE car bomber ploughed into policemen waiting to collect their salary at a police station west of Ramadi yesterday, killing 12 people in the latest insurgent attack on Iraq’s beleaguered security forces.

At least 10 people were wounded in the blast, and 90% of the casualties were policemen, said Nazar al-Hiti, a doctor in the town of Hit around 155 miles west of Baghdad, where the dead and wounded were taken.

Two American soldiers were also killed and three were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in north-western Baghdad.