Twenty die as suicide bomber hits Iraqi police station

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

*Perilous Times

Twenty die as suicide bomber hits Iraqi police station*

Reuters
Wednesday, August 22, 2007; 4:43 AM

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed a fuel tanker into a police
station in the northern Iraqi oil city of Baiji on Wednesday, killing at
least 20 people and wounding 40, police said.

Police said the bomber struck the front gates of the police directorate
in Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad. Dr. Thamir Kawan, the
head of Baiji hospital, said 11 people, police and civilians, had been
killed in the blast.

The police directorate had just moved into a new headquarters in the
past few days, after an identical attack on their original station in
June killed 27 people, including 13 policemen.