A suicide bomber driving an ambulance killed 12 people and wounded more than 50 in an attack on Wednesday on an Iraqi police training center in volatile Diyala province, a spokeswoman for the provincial governor said.
"There are more bodies buried in the ruins," the governor's spokeswoman, Samira al-Shibli, told Reuters.
A police spokesman in Diyala province, Maj. Ghalib al-Karkhi, told The Associated Press that the car was driven by a suicide attacker and crashed into the headquarters' main gate in the city of Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.
He said it exploded when guards opened fire on the car to try to stop it.
Police said the blast toppled a building on the headquarters' grounds.
The attack, which comes a day after a suicide bomber targeting police recruits in northern Iraq killed 65 people, starkly displayed the Iraqi forces' failure to plug holes in their security as the U.S. military prepares to withdraw from the country at the year's end.
