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At least 16 police officials killed in Mosul suicide attack
At least 16 police officials have been killed by a suicide bomb attack in northern Iraq on Sunday, police and military sources said.
- Agencies
- Published: 14:29 May 29, 2008
Mosul: At least 16 police officials have been killed by a suicide bomb attack in northern Iraq on Sunday, police and military sources said.
Fourteen police recruits and two policemen were killed when an attacker dressed in a military uniform blew himself up near a police recruitment camp near Mosul.
The attacker was wearing a vest loaded with explosives.
Ten recruits and five other police officers were wounded as well.
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