Update: Salahaddin blast death toll reaches 175 casualties

[Sara Johnson]

Update: Salahaddin blast death toll reaches 175 casualties Wednesday, March 30th

2011 8:13 PM

Salahaddin, March 30 (AKnews) - An official security source in Salahaddin

police said Tuesday evening that the toll of the explosion and the armed attack

done on the building of the Salahaddin provincial council rose to 65 dead and

110 wounded persons, mostly civilians.

Capt. Hazem al-Jabbouri told AKnews that joint U.S-Iraqi forces stormed the

council's building and controlled the first and second floors and at the end

they succeeded in controlling the whole building and killing all the attackers

at around 6:00 pm.

"The attack was done by a bombed car that exploded at the main entrance and a

suicide bomber who blew himself up inside the building, then more than 15

militants stormed the building and detained members of the Council and

hostages, and among the dead persons were three of the council's members who

are Sheikh Mahdi Arran, Wathiq Shaker and Abdullah Jabbara," he said.

Reported by Abdullah al-Hasan

RN\GS AKnews

http://www.aknews.com/en/aknews/3/228507/