[09 March 2005] BAGHDAD,(Saba) - A suicide bomber driving a garbage truck blew himself up on Wednesday near a Baghdad hotel used by Iraqi police and their foreign instructors, killing at least three and wounding more than 31others, officials said.

Huge plumes of thick smoke blackened the Baghdad sky as police, ambulances and fire
engines, their sirens breaking the early morning calm, rushed to the scene.

"One man was killed and dozens of others were taken to hospital for treatment" Police said.

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