Four dead in Iraq suicide bomb blast
A suicide car bomber attacked a police station on the outskirts of one of Iraq’s major oil hubs today, killing at least four policemen and injuring eight, police said.
The attack came a day after the bombing of a key oil pipeline just east of the northern oil city of Beiji.
Today’s explosion happened at 9.30am at a police station about three miles north of the city centre, police said.
Beiji – which lies 155 miles north of Baghdad – houses northern Iraq’s largest oil refinery, and serves as a key transfer point for crude oil being exported out of Iraq.
Attacks on the Kirkuk-Beiji pipeline cluster have been infrequent in recent months, with some 300 US soldiers and more than 2,000 Iraqi troops guarding the zone.
