Insurgents set off at least two car bombs and attacked a police station Saturday in the central Iraqi town of Samarra, killing at least 19 people and injuring 23 people, according to police and health officials. Police officer Qahtan Mohammed confirmed that a group of armed militants stormed a police station at 9 a.m. (0600MGT) in the Zera district, leaving 12 policemen dead and injuring one. In the other attacks, a suicide car bomber detonated explosives inside a stolen police car near the mayor's office, police said. A second car bomb exploded in a residential area of the city near a U.S. base and a mortar fell on a crowded market. Police Maj. Saadoun Ahmed Matroud said 18 of the 19 killed in the multiple attacks were policemen. Samarra hospital officials said a total of 23 people were injured, many of them policemen. --MORE 1221 Local Time 0921 GMT
