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Baghdad Car Bombing Kills Eight

By Deborah Amos

Published October 9, 2003 at 12:00 AM EDT

A suicide bomber drives a car into a Baghdad police station, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens of others. U.S. military officials say most of those killed were Iraqi policemen. Hear NPR's Deborah Amos.

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