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Truck bomb at Iraq police station Ten dead in Iraq fuel truck bomb
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A suicide bomber driving a fuel truck has attacked a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. A suicide bomber driving a fuel truck has slammed into a police compound in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing at least 10 people.
Details of casualties are not clear, but Reuters news agency reported that at least seven people had been killed and 20 injured. Police said civilians bore the brunt of the attack at the Tamam police station. Twenty people were wounded.
The agency reports medical sources saying that the death and injury toll is likely to rise. The authorities imposed an curfew after the early morning blast which was heard throughout the city.
Mosul is an ethnically and religiously mixed city 390km (240 miles) north of the capital Baghdad.Mosul is an ethnically and religiously mixed city 390km (240 miles) north of the capital Baghdad.
Correspondents say it has witnessed a recent escalation of violence, with Sunni Arab insurgents battling US troops and the Shia-led led government in Baghdad.