Three killed, over 20 injured in car bomb in Iraq's Samarra

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BAGHDAD, April 11 (Xinhuanet) -- A suicide car bombing occurred on Monday evening in Iraq's Samarra, north of Baghdad, killing three Iraqis and wounding more than 20 others, said reports reaching here from the restive city.

Local hospital sources were quoted as saying that the incident occurred when a pickup truck exploded near a US convoy patrolling a crowded market in the Al-Dubat neighborhood of Samarra.

A doctor at Samarra's main hospital told the press that his facility received three dead and more than 20 wounded, including five children and a woman, after the attack.

"I saw a pickup truck ram into a four-vehicle US convoy," said a witness.

There was no immediate report on the incident from the US military.