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Suicide truck bomb kills eight people in Iraq

A suicide truck bomber attacked a small police station in a remote village north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least eight people, Iraqi authorities said.

The bombing was the latest in a series of attacks against small villages in northern Iraq, indicating insurgents are targeting relatively unprotected areas as Iraqi security forces focus on tightening security in the cities.

The Iraqi government is eager to demonstrate it can protect the population following the withdrawal of US combat troops from urban areas nearly two months ago.

But a recent series of high-profile bombings that have killed hundreds in both major cities and remote areas has raised concerns Iraqi forces are not up to the task.

The bomber who struck at about 8 am on Saturday was targeting a small police encampment in Hamad, a primarily Sunni village that lies between Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit and Mosul, which the US military considers to be the last urban stronghold of al-Qaida in Iraq.

Police at a checkpoint attempted to stop the truck, forcing the attacker to change direction and slam into a concrete barrier close to an open air market, said officials from the Iraqi army and police. Initially, the officials reported five officers were killed in the blast.

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Suicide truck bomb kills eight people in Iraq

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