Iraqi police kill female suicide bomber

0 Comments | AFP, June, 2007

BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraqi police opened fire and killed a female suicide bomber as she approached a Baghdad recruitment centre on Tuesday, blowing up her explosives belt but preventing a far deadlier attack.

"A woman wearing a suicide belt tried to blow herself near a national police recruitment centre near Sadr al-Qanat," interior ministry operations director Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf told AFP.

"Some elements of the mechanised brigade saw a suspicious woman and ordered her to stop, but she didn't respond and approached the recruits, so they opened fire on her and she exploded," he added.

Security and defence officials said three police were lightly wounded in the attack, but Khalaf could not confirm this.

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