Baghdad rocked by fresh violence

MSNBC NEWS SERVICES

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 9 — A suicide car bomber drove through the gates of police station in northeast Baghdad and detonated an explosive Thursday morning, killing eight people and injuring 28, police and the U.S. military said. The vehicle’s driver and a passenger also died in the blast. Elsewhere, a U.S. soldier and a Spanish military attaché were killed in separate attacks.

THE AMERICAN SOLDIER was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack on a military convoy northeast of the Iraqi capital early on Thursday, a U.S. military spokeswoman said.

She said the soldier was pronounced dead in a U.S. military hospital after the attack at around 2 a.m. (7 p.m. ET Wednesday) near the town of Baquba.

In Baghdad, Jose Antonio Bernal Gomez, a Spanish military liaison, was shot to death as he left his home in the city, Spain’s foreign ministry said.

Gomez was an air force sergeant attached to Spain’s National Intelligence Center, it said. Spanish officials in Baghdad declined to comment.

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