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Suicide bombing kills 27, wounds 40 in N Iraq

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-09-13 09:39

BAGHDAD  -- At least 27 Iraqis were killed and about 40 others wounded in a suicide bombing targeting a police station in northern province of Salahuddin on Friday evening, according to a provincial police source.

Residents look at a damaged vehicle after a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad's Habibiya district September 11, 2008. [Agencies]

The assailant detonated explosives in his car at about 6:00 p.m.(1500 GMT) near the police station at the town of Dujail, some 70 km north of Baghdad, the source said.

The majority of the victims were civilians as the police station is near a crowded market.

Earlier in the day, a suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowd of Muslim worshiper in the town of Sinjar in Nineveh province, killing two of them and wounding 15 others.

Violence has dropped to a four-year low in Iraq, while sporadic car bombings, roadside bombs and suicide attacks are still haunting the Iraqis.