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Suicide bomber in wheelchair kills senior officer in Iraq (Extra)
Feb 25, 2008, 11:05 GMT
Baghdad - A suicide bomber in a wheelchair killed a senior police officer and his two aides and wounded eight soldiers at a police centre in Samarra, northern Iraq Monday, according to security officials.
Major General Abdel Jabbar Rabi, an assistant police commander, was killed when a man in a wheelchair blew himself up as the officer was on his way into the centre to meet a group of Iraqis, police said.
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