BAGHDAD, December 08, SPA -- A suicide truck bomber attacked a police station in one of Iraq's major oil hubs on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring 13 in aneighborhood home to many refinery workers and engineers,police said. The attack in Beiji was at least the third deadly suicideattack in 24 hours in Iraq and came a day after a key oilpipeline in the northern city was struck by an insurgentbomb, the Associated Press reported. The bomber on Saturday approached the police station in anexplosives-laden truck about five kilometers (three miles)north of the city center, a police official said, speakingon condition of anonymity because he was not authorized torelease details of the attack. The official said five policemen and two civilians werekilled in the blast, which damaged nearby homes and sentshards of glass flying through the air.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/507276
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