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Wheelchair suicide bomber kills top Iraqi police chief
The bomber entered the building in Samarra and asked to speak to assistant police chief Major General Abdul-Jabbar Rabee Muttar before detonating his vest packed with explosives.
Samarra: A suicide bomber in a wheelchair killed a top policeman and wounded two others when he blew himself up in the police operations centre in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Monday, police said.
The bomber entered the building in Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, and asked to speak to assistant police chief Major General Abdul-Jabbar Rabee Muttar, said Captain Luay Mohammad, an official in the Samarra police chief's office.
Major Muthanna Mohammad of Salahuddin provincial police said the bomber, in his 40s, then detonated a vest packed with explosives, killing Muttar and wounding two other policemen.
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