Suicide car bomber kills 11 in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Dec 20 (Reuters) A suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into an Iraqi police checkpoint near Baghdad University today, killing 11 people and wounding 31, an Interior Ministry source said.

The source said there were university students among the dead and wounded from the blast in the Jadriya district in the southwest of the capital.

Police checkpoints are a frequent target of militants fighting US-led forces and the Shi'ite-led Iraqi government. Police normally set up a checkpoint outside the university's gates.

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