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Powerful Car Bomb Kills 47 In Baghdad
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The
Iraqi police station that devastated by a powerful car bomb on
Tuesday
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BAGHDAD,
February 11 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – A booby-trapped
car rammed into a recruiting facility of the U.S.-formed new Iraqi
army in Baghdad early on Wednesday, February 11, killing at least 47
people, reported Aljazeera television.
"A
car bomb exploded at the new Iraqi army recruiting facility in Baghdad
at around 7:40 a.m," a U.S. military spokesman told Reuters.
He,
however, put the death toll at between 20 to 25 people.
Colonel
Baker said from the scene that a car, loaded with 135-225kg of
explosives, had been driven up to the recruiting center by a single
male, reported the BBC News Online.
"It
was a suicide attack."
The
deadly attack came hard on the heels of a truck
bombing on Tuesday, February 10, that killed at least
55 people outside an Iraqi police station, 40 kilometers south of
Baghdad.
The
bombings are the worst loss of life in Iraq since the twin bomb
attacks on the two Kurdish main parties in the northern city of Irbil
on February 1, which killed more than 100 people.
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