Police Lieutenant Colonel Falah al-Mohammedawi said 19 people were killed and 58 wounded. Many of the injured were rushed to nearby Imam Ali Hospital, where hallways were filled with doctors and nurses treating and bandaging the wounded.
In the western border town of Qaim, a suicide car bomber killed at least five people and wounded 10 in an attack on a police station, the head of the local hospital said.
In the northern city of Mosul, a suicide bomber reportedly trying to target a US military convoy instead killed three Iraqi civilians. Police Brigadier Abdul-Hamid al-Jibouri said the attack took place in the eastern neighborhood of Sukar.
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