BY SUCCESS KANAYO UCHIME
A suicide attacker in Baghdad rammed a truck loaded with heavy explosive thereby resulting to the death of ten soldiers, while 29 people were seriously wounded.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani
AFP report said that the incident occurred outside Iraqi army intelligence office in the country's east and that Diyala health directorate spokesman Faris al-Azawi said the blast which happened around 6 a.m. Monday had 14 other soldiers wounded.
According to the report, the suicide bomber drove his booby-trapped car past the security gate and blew up right outside the army battalion's headquarters in Kanan, east of the provincial capital of Baqouba, 35 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad.
Faris al-Azawi said emergency workers were frantically trying to rescue victims from beneath the rubble adding that a second bomb was discovered nearby but diffused by officials before it could explode.
A suicide attacker in Baghdad rammed a truck loaded with heavy explosive thereby resulting to the death of ten soldiers, while 29 people were seriously wounded.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani
AFP report said that the incident occurred outside Iraqi army intelligence office in the country's east and that Diyala health directorate spokesman Faris al-Azawi said the blast which happened around 6 a.m. Monday had 14 other soldiers wounded.
According to the report, the suicide bomber drove his booby-trapped car past the security gate and blew up right outside the army battalion's headquarters in Kanan, east of the provincial capital of Baqouba, 35 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad.
Faris al-Azawi said emergency workers were frantically trying to rescue victims from beneath the rubble adding that a second bomb was discovered nearby but diffused by officials before it could explode.
