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Female bomber kills 18 in attack on Iraq police station (Extra)
Apr 23, 2008, 10:30 GMT
Baghdad - A woman suicide bomber killed 18 people and wounded two in an attack on a police station in Iraq's Diyala province, the US military said Wednesday.
Eleven Iraqi civilians and seven policemen were killed in the attack on Monday evening, the military statement said.
Diyala, north-east of Baghdad, is the centre stage for Sunni insurgents from the Islamic State of Iraq group affiliated with the al-Qaeda terrorist network.
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