A massive truck bombing has killed 20 Iraqis at a police station in Baghdad after a suicide bomber drove a lorry packed with bricks into the heavily guarded compound.
14 policemen, three detainees in police custody and two civilians were among the dead, while another 26 people were taken to hospital with injuries following the massive blast.
The bomber penetrated the heavily guarded police compound in the southern district of Dura by driving a large lorry weighed down with bricks, raising no suspicion given ongoing construction work at the compound, officials said.
He managed to steer the truck past the first police checkpoint before blowing up both himself and the truck, gouging a giant crater out of the ground just outside the main police station building.
