- Title: IRAQ: SUICIDE CAR BOMB ATTACKS ON POLICE ACADEMY COMPOUND IN TIKRIT.
- Date: 24th April 2005
- Summary: (W3) TIKRIT, IRAQ (APRIL 24, 2005) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL): 1. HAS/WS: OF U.S. MILITARY VEHICLE AND TROOPS NEAR BLAST SITE. (2 SHOTS) 0.13 2. HAS/WS: POLICEMEN ON SITE TALKING TO PEOPLE. 0.18 3. HAS/WS: OF BLAST SCENE. 0.25 4. TRACK: AMBULANCE RACING TO HOSPITAL. 0.30 5. MV: DOCTORS TREATING WOUNDED IN HOSPITAL. 0.34 6.
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- Location: TIKRIT, IRAQ
- Country: Iraq
- Reuters ID: LVARBYN9N3BKGGFA1UGREIA76WI
- Story Text: At least 7 Iraqis killed and dozens wounded in
suicide car bomb attacks in northern town of Tikrit.
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Suicide car bombers launched twin attacks inside a
police academy compound in the town of Tikrit on Sunday
(April 24) , killing at least seven people and wounding
dozens, Iraqi police and doctors said.
One bomber drove into the compound and blew up his
vehicle among a crowd of policemen, killing several,
according to accounts provided by witnesses to a reporter
working for Reuters.
As police and passers-by rushed to help those hit in
the blast, a second car bomber entered the compound and
detonated his vehicle, the witnesses said.
A doctor at Tikrit's hospital, Mohammed Ayash, said
seven bodies had been brought in and as many as 26 people
were wounded. All those killed were police, while both
civilians and police were among the wounded.
Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq said that a pair from its
"martyrs brigade" carried out the attack, according to an
Internet posting. It was not possible to verify the
authenticity of the statement.
Tikrit, 150 km (90 miles) north of Baghdad, is the
hometown of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein. It has seen
frequent outbreaks of violence, including a car bomb blast
outside the U.S. military's headquarters in the town last week.
The bombings come amid a new wave of violence in Iraq,
with a marked increase in bombings, suicide attacks,
ambushes and assassinations this month.
Many of the attacks have targeted Iraqi police and
soldiers, who are in the front line of the fight against
the two-year-old insurgency.
More than 400 Iraqi police and soldiers have been
killed over the past six weeks, according to figures from
www.icasualties.org, a Web site that tracks deaths in Iraq.
The increase in violence threatens to overshadow the
country's attempts to form a government nearly three months
after its first post-Saddam elections were held.
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