Six dead in Baghdad blast

A car bomb exploded outside a Baghdad police station today in a deady pair of attacks that killed six people in the Iraqi capital, security and hospital officials said.

A suicide attacker drove the bomb-rigged car up to a gate protecting the police post in western Baghdad’s al-Amil neighbourhood during an early-morning shift change when officers were gathered outside its blast walls.

Four police officers and one civilian were killed, and 15 people were wounded.

Ten minutes earlier, a bomb stuck to the underside of a car in Baghdad’s central Allawi al-Hillah area ripped the vehicle apart, killing the driver and wounding three passengers.

It was not immediately known who was behind the attacks.