KurdistanObserver.com
Truck Bomb Levels Police Station in Kirkuk
April 3, 2007
BAGHDAD (AP) – Trucks carrying government flour rations usually present a
welcome sight for residents of Iraqi cities outside the capital.
That’s changing. For the third time in a week, a suicide truck bomber used a
load of flour to hide his bomb. The latest attacker slammed into a police
station in a Kurdish neighborhood in the disputed northern city of Kirkuk,
killing at least 15 people, including a baby girl and a U.S. soldier. Nearly 200
other people were wounded including several girls walking home from school.
Monday’s bombing was seen as a possible prelude to far greater violence to this
oil-rich city 180 miles north of the capital. It came just days after the
government adopted a plan to relocate thousands of Arabs who were moved to
Kirkuk decades ago in Saddam Hussein’s campaign to displace the Kurds.
Doctors worked in a scene of bloody pandemonium as wounded were brought to the
emergency room. There was barely room to move. Many of those being treated
appeared to be either very young children or schoolgirls, blood spattered on
their clothes.
