Samarra, Iraq, Nov 6, SPA -- Insurgents set off at least two carbombs and attacked a police station Saturday in the centralIraqi town of Samarra, killing at least 19 people andinjuring 23 people, according to police and healthofficials. Police officer Qahtan Mohammed confirmed that a group ofarmed militants stormed a police station at 9 a.m.(0600MGT) in the Zera district, leaving 12 policemen deadand injuring one. In the other attacks, a suicide car bomber detonatedexplosives inside a stolen police car near the mayor'soffice, police said. A second car bomb exploded in aresidential area of the city near a U.S. base and a mortarfell on a crowded market. Police Maj. Saadoun Ahmed Matroud said 18 of the 19 killedin the multiple attacks were policemen. Samarra hospital officials said a total of 23 people wereinjured, many of them policemen.--MORE1221 Local Time 0921 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/215681