Suicide car bomber kills 15 policemen in Iraq

  • 12/15/2022
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Irbil, Iraq, June 21, SPA -- A suicide car bomber wearing a policeuniform killed at least 15 traffic policemen and wounded 100 others during morning roll call at a police headquarters in this northern Kurdish city. The bombing that ripped through the police facility wasone in a series attacks, including at least five suicidecar bombings, that swept Iraq Monday. Authorities reported37 people died in attacks nationwide in the ongoingmilitant offensive that has killed nearly 1,200 in lessthan two months. On Sunday, a suicide bomber walked into a Baghdad kebabrestaurant popular with policemen and blew himself up,killing 23 people, including seven officers. "Most of the attacks targeting the Iraqi security forces,including the police, are launched by Muslim fundamentalists," said Sabah Kadhim, an Interior Ministry spokesman. "Iraq has become the center of global terrorism, and those groups' attacks are aiming to create a sectarian crisis. Their main aim is to keep the country in chaos," he was quoted as saying by The Associated Press.--SPA1145 Local Time 0845 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/271431

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