Violence continues to rage in Iraq today with at least 32 people killed in a raid on a police station in which local officers have been blamed of complicity.
In one of their biggest attacks on Iraqi forces, insurgents stormed the police headquarters and another official building in the town of Miqdadiya, northeast of Baghdad, killing at least 22 people, mostly policemen.
Ten suspected Sunni Arab insurgents were also killed, but the attackers freed 33 prisoners, an Interior Ministry source said, adding that 15 policemen and nine civilians were killed.
A police source put the death toll at 18 police officers, four civilians and one gunman.
According to officers at the scene, around 20 attackers with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades engaged with police at station in fire fight that lasted at least half an hour.
Following the dawn attack, the governor of Diyala province, which has a volatile ethnic and religious mix and has seen many al Qaeda attacks in recent months, ordered the arrest of the local police chief and other officers.
In nearby Baquba, two policemen were killed when a roadside bomb hit their patrol as it raced to the scene in Miqdadiya.