More than 45 Iraqis were killed and dozens injured in suicide bombings across Iraq on Saturday, officials said, as insurgents stepped up their offensives against the Iraqi police and military.The deadliest attack took place in Baghdad's Dora neighborhood, where a suicide bomber managed to get a truck loaded with building materials -- and explosives -- past a checkpoint and into the parking lot of a police station where construction work was being done. Fourteen policemen and six civilians were killed, and 26 people were wounded, news services reported, citing police sources.
The powerful blast collapsed sections of the two-story building and shook windows and walls miles from Dora, a volatile area of southern Baghdad where Sunni Muslim insurgents have been chasing out Shiite residents.
U.S. troops have been deployed to restive Baghdad neighborhoods, including Dora, and to other parts of Iraq as part of a plan, now in its sixth week, intended to curb violence. While bombings have remained steady during the crackdown, they have rarely been as deadly as Saturday's attacks.
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