Suicide bombers kill four in Iraq police station

Two suicide bombers yesterday killed four policemen in a police station in the northern city of Mosul, including an officer who oversaw a deadly raid on militants, Iraqi security sources said.

A third bomber was shot dead before setting off his explosives belt in the attack targeting Lieutenant Colonel Shamil Ahmed Oglaq, who commanded the raid last week on an Al-Qaeda affiliate, a police officer said.

The early morning bombings killed Oglaq and three other policemen, an interior ministry source said, and destroyed most of the police station in the the Qabr al-Binat area of western Mosul, according to the police officer.

The officer said Oglaq had commanded an operation in western Mosul in which a leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, Al-Qaeda’s Iraqi affiliate, was killed.