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Suicide Bomber Strikes Police Station in Iraq

   VOA News  May 05, 2011

   Iraqi officials say at least 18 people were killed and 40 wounded when
   a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into the entrance of a police
   station.
   The attack took place on Thursday in Hilla, a predominately Shi'ite
   city about 100 kilometers south of Baghdad.
   Investigators say most of the victims were police officers who had
   assembled outside of the building for a shift change.
   The incident took place a day after roadside bombs and attacks in
   Baghdad and the city of Karbala killed at least five people.
   Security sources said Wednesday that bombs in the Shi'ite holy city of
   Karbala killed at least three people and wounded three others.
   In Baghdad, bombs wounded as many as three people. Also, gunmen using
   silenced weapons in the capital shot dead a government employee and a
   police officer in two separate attacks.
   Violence in Iraq has declined since the height of the sectarian
   conflict several years ago. But militants still carry out bombings and
   shootings almost daily.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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