BAGHDAD,
December 15 (IslamOnline.net) - At least 12 Iraqis were killed and 20
others injured Monday, December 15, when two car bombs ripped through
two police stations in the Baghdad districts of Al-Hussiniyah and
Al-Amiriya.
Hussiniyah
blast occurred at around 8:30 p.m. (0530 GMT) when a white Toyota Land
Cruiser stormed the barbed wire and cement roadblocks encircling the
police station and exploded next to the main gate, an Iraqi policeman
told IslamOnline.net.
It
killed ten Iraqis, including policemen, and injured 20 others, creating
a deep crater near the building's entrance, he added, requesting
anonymity.
IOL
correspondent saw the upper half of a corpse believed to be the bomber,
who carried out the attack.
Fire
engines extinguished the conflagration that gutted nearby cars, while
ambulances were racing to take the injured to hospital.
An
Iraqi policeman told IOL that Iraqi and U.S. forces succeeded in foiling
a second attack, after opening fire at the approaching car.
He
said that Iraqi policemen managed to defuse the deadly explosives found
in the car and arrested its injured driver.
U.S.
Capt. Brad Loudon told IOL that no U.S. soldiers were killed or injured
in the twin attack.
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An
Iraqi policeman inspects the crater made by the car bomb
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Ahmad
Samir, a 16-year-old student, told IOL that he and his colleagues were
at school when they heard a shuddering explosion that damaged the
school's windows, but caused no injuries among the students.
Haidar
Jabbar, 14, said the deafening blast caused a rush flight from classes
and left students in panic.
Meanwhile,
a third car bomb exploded near an Iraqi police station near the U.S.
headquarters in Al-Amiriya suburb, west of Baghdad, killing two
policemen and injuring several others, Al-Jazeera television reported.
Ali
Hussein, an Iraqi corporal, described the attack to IOL.
"I
was sitting in my patrol car near the U.S. HQ, which lies next to
Al-Amiriya police station, when I heard one of the guards shout at an
approaching car, which exploded all of a sudden," he said.
On
Sunday, December 14, a car bomb
killed 17 policemen and wounded 30 others at a police station in western
Iraq.
The
spat of attacks came just one day after the
capture of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was made public Sunday.
Saddam
was captured Saturday night in a raid by U.S. forces in his northern
hometown of Tikrit.
