Officials: Suicide attack kills 8 in northern Iraq
A suicide truck bomber targeting a senior police officer's convoy in Iraq killed eight people, including the ranking official, authorities said Saturday.
The attack happened late Friday when the suicide attacker drove his bomb-laden truck into the convoy of police Lt. Gen. Faisal Malik, who was inspecting troops in the town of Beiji, police said. The blast killed Faisal and seven police officers, while wounding 15 people, hospital officials and police officers said.
