16 Iraqis Killed by Car Bomb Near US Base

World | October 23, 2004, Saturday // 00:00
16 Iraqis Killed by Car Bomb Near US Base A tank burns after being attacked along the highway to the airport in Baghdad. At least 16 policemen were killed and 40 wounded in a suicide car bombing in western Iraq as US troops captured a top member of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's network. Photo by AFP

Suicide bombers killed 20 members of Iraq's fledgling security forces near a US marine base west of Baghdad and at a checkpoint to the north amid a spate of insurgent attacks across the country. Hospital officials said 16 Iraqi police were killed and up to 40 people wounded by the morning suicide bomb at an Iraqi police post near the marine base west of Baghdad. Another suicide bomber blew up his vehicle near a checkpoint manned by Iraqi National Guards in the village of Ishaqi, near Samarra, north of Baghdad, killing four guards. A guard officer said six guards were also wounded in the attack. Police said a policeman was killed by a roadside bomb in Samarra town.

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