Baghdad truck bomb kills 40

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A suicide truck bomber struck today outside a police station in Baghdad, killing at least 40 people, the US military said. Television pictures showed a deep crater in the road outside the Rashad police station in the New Baghdad neighbourhood in the east of the capital, as ambulances and fire fighters attended the scene. Iraqi police sources had earlier put the death toll at 22. IIn a statement, the US military said a flat-bed truck loaded with 500 lbs (220 kilos) of explosives blew up at the front gate of the police station. It said 25 people were wounded in the explosion, which destroyed a dozen vehicles. More than 200 people have died in the past 10 days in an series of suicide car bomb attacks in and near the capital.