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| 'Many killed' in Iraq car bombing | |
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| At least 25 people have been killed in a suicide car bombing in a town north of Baghdad, police say. | |
| The blast targeted a police station in the commercial district of the mainly Shia town of Dujail. | The blast targeted a police station in the commercial district of the mainly Shia town of Dujail. |
| At least 40 others were injured in the explosion, which happened around 1800 (1500 GMT), police said. | At least 40 others were injured in the explosion, which happened around 1800 (1500 GMT), police said. |
| The attack comes a day after the outgoing US troop commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, said recent security gains were "not irreversible". | |
| According to police, the blast took place just before dusk, when many people were on the streets. | |
| A suicide bomber drove a vehicle filled with explosives into a police station, security officials said. A nearby medical clinic was also reportedly damaged. | |
| Dujail, some 40 km (25 miles) north of the Iraqi capital, was the site of an assassination attempt against former leader Saddam Hussein in the early 1980s. | |
| He was executed in December 2006 after a court found him guilty of ordering the deaths of more than 140 Shia Muslims in response to the attack. |