By SPA
Baghdad : A suicide truck bomber attacked a police station in one of Iraq’s major oil hubs on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring 13 in a neighborhood home to many refinery workers and engineers, police said.
The attack in Beiji was at least the third deadly suicide attack in 24 hours in Iraq and came a day after a key oil pipeline in the northern city was struck by an insurgent bomb, the Associated Press reported.
The bomber on Saturday approached the police station in an explosives-laden truck about five kilometers (three miles) north of the city center, a police official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release details of the attack.
The official said five policemen and two civilians were killed in the blast, which damaged nearby homes and sent