At least 15 people killed as suicide bomber rams car into police building in Hilla
A car bomb has killed at least 15 people and wounded 25 in the predominantly Shia city of Hilla, according to medical and police sources.
A suicide bomber rammed his car into the entrance of a police headquarters on Thursday in Hilla, 100km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, during a shift change when many police officers were outside the building, the sources said.
An interior ministry source in Baghdad put the toll at 16 killed and 50 wounded.
Iraqi security forces went on high alert for revenge attacks after US forces killed the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden.
Iraq has been a battlefield for the Islamist militant group since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein.
US and Iraqi officials claim al-Qaida in Iraq has been severely weakened in recent years.
But eight years after Saddam's overthrow, Iraq still faces a lethal insurgency that carries out dozens of bombings and other attacks each month, many of them on Iraqi police, soldiers and government officials.
Hilla was hit by one of the deadliest attacks in Iraq in May last year when two suicide car bombers drove into the entrance of a textile factory as workers were ending a shift, killing at least 35 people and wounding 135. A third bomb exploded as police and medics rushed to the scene.
On Monday, four people were wounded when a bomb attached to a car in a car park exploded in Hilla.
guardian.co.uk
A suicide bomber rammed his car into the entrance of a police headquarters on Thursday in Hilla, 100km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, during a shift change when many police officers were outside the building, the sources said.
An interior ministry source in Baghdad put the toll at 16 killed and 50 wounded.
Iraqi security forces went on high alert for revenge attacks after US forces killed the al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden.
Iraq has been a battlefield for the Islamist militant group since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Sunni dictator Saddam Hussein.
US and Iraqi officials claim al-Qaida in Iraq has been severely weakened in recent years.
But eight years after Saddam's overthrow, Iraq still faces a lethal insurgency that carries out dozens of bombings and other attacks each month, many of them on Iraqi police, soldiers and government officials.
Hilla was hit by one of the deadliest attacks in Iraq in May last year when two suicide car bombers drove into the entrance of a textile factory as workers were ending a shift, killing at least 35 people and wounding 135. A third bomb exploded as police and medics rushed to the scene.
On Monday, four people were wounded when a bomb attached to a car in a car park exploded in Hilla.
guardian.co.uk
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