Iraq violence continues to claim lives of dozens

A suicide truck bomber struck near a Shi'ite mosque in the town of Haswa about 60 km south of Baghdad on Saturday, killing nine and wounding 43, a hospital source said. On Saturday, Suicide bombers struck across Iraq in a sharp upsurge in violence that killed dozens of people, many of them policemen. In the worst attack, a man driving a truck packed with explosives blew up outside a police station in Baghdad's volatile southern district of Dora, killing 20.