Baghdad- At least 11 Iraqis, including nine Iraqi policemen, were killed in an explosion Friday in Bayji city, a security source said. A suicide bomber driving a fuel tank rigged with explosives blew himself up near a police check point in Bayji, 200 kilometres north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the source added.
Eight people were also wounded in the attack, the source said.
Bayji has repeatedly been attacked, mostly by the al-Qaeda terrorist network in Iraq.
Earlier media reports said that seven Iraqi policemen had been killed in a blast targeting a checkpoint in Bayji.
