Suicide Bomber Targets Local Iraqi Police Chief

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HILLA, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed a car into the house of a local police chief in a town south of Baghdad on Tuesday, trapping the policeman and his children under the rubble, police and witnesses said.

Only the suicide bomber was killed in the explosion which destroyed the front of the house in the town of Hilla, 60 miles south of Baghdad, they said. ...

Police and witnesses said the car bomber drove into Brigadier General Qais Hamza's house at 6 a.m. The ground floor was destroyed. The rubble was littered with burned out bits of a car and the bomber's body parts, they said.

"Just before six in the morning we heard an explosion," Riyad al-Dulaimi said. "We were asleep and we woke up to the noise. We ran to the site of the explosion, the house of Colonel Qais and found him and his children under the rubble.

"We dug them out and thank God, they are all safe."

Police said another policeman was wounded in the blast.

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