At least two policemen were killed and more than 40 people wounded in a suicide truck bomb attack on a police commando base in the city of Mosul on Sunday afternoon, a provincial police source said.
"A suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden truck into the entrance of a police commando base in southwestern Mosul and blew it up at about 5:15 p.m. (1415 GMT)," Brigadier Khalid Abdul Sattar, spokesman of operations office in Nineveh province, told Xinhua.
The casualty toll could rise, Sattar said, as the blast was so powerful that badly damaged some 50 houses around the site of the explosion.
Iraqi security forces sealed off the area as rescue teams continued evacuating casualties, he said.
Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, is believed to be one of the last strongholds of al-Qaida militants in Iraq.
Source:Xinhua
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