A suicide truck bomber attacked a police station in one of Iraq’s major oil hubs on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring 13 in a neighborhood home to many refinery workers and engineers, police said. The attack in Beiji was at least the third deadly suicide attack in 24 hours in Iraq and came a day after a key oil pipeline in the northern city was struck by an insurgent bomb.
The bomber approached the police station in an explosives-laden truck about five kilometers north of the city centre, killing five policemen and two civilians, a police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.