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| There are currently about 50,000 US troops in Iraq, operating in 'support and advisory' roles [GALLO/GETTY] |
Three suicide bombers have attacked a police headquarters in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing the commander and three other officers.
Officials speaking on condition of anonymity said three men with explosive vests attempted to blow up a police compound housing Iraq's First Police Battalion on Wednesday.
Police shot one of the bombers as the three approached the complex. Two managed to get inside and blow themselves up, killing the battalion's commander.
A hospital official confirmed the fatality, but there was no word on the injured.
Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh, reporting from Baghdad, said that the attack "brought down, essentially, the entire building".
"This happened in the early hours of this morning and until now, rescue teams are still trying to pull bodies and survivors from under the rubble.," she said.
"We understand that in addition to the police commander, at least three other police officers were killed."
In a separate incident, a government-backed Sahwa (Awakening movement) leader escaped unharmed when a bomb attached to his car exploded in Baghdad's southern Doura district on Tuesday, an interior ministry....Read more...
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