Car bomb attack at Iraqi police graduation ceremony kills 20
Thursday, January 6, 2005 at 07:03PM
TheSpook
At least 22 people have been killed and others injured in
a car bomb targeting a police academy in Babil district
in Hilla, south of Baghdad. Hussain al-Haidari, an Iraqi journalist,
told Aljazeera a booby-trapped Daewoo car exploded on Wednesday during
a graduation ceremony at the police academy. Babil district police
spokesman Hadi Hatif said the bomber drove into the compound and came
under fire from police before his car exploded. He said at least four
cars and three nearby buildings were hit by the blast. The attack came
a day after a truck bomb attack on a police commando headquarters in
Baghdad killed at least 11 people. Hilla is about 100km south of the
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