Car bomb attack kills 20 in Iraq
By The Associated Press
This article was published February 19, 2012 at 9:45 a.m.
PHOTO BY KARIM KADIM / AP
Security forces prepare to tow away a destroyed car after a car bomb attack outside the fortified academy near the Interior Ministry headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. A suicide bomber detonated his car as a group of police recruits left their academy in Baghdad, killing and wounding scores of people, police said.
BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber detonated his car Sunday as a group of police recruits left their academy in Baghdad, killing 20 in the latest strike on security officials.
Police said the suicide bomber was waiting on the street outside the fortified academy near the Interior Ministry headquarters in an eastern neighborhood in the capital. As the crowd of recruits exited the compound's security barriers around 1 p.m. and walked into the road, police said the bomber drove toward them and blew up his car.
The bomb killed five policemen and 15 recruits. It wounded another 28 recruits and policemen.
Officials at three nearby hospitals confirmed the casualties.
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