Bombs in 3 cities kill 18 in Iraq

CNN, Monday, June 20, 2005; Posted: 4:51 a.m. EDT (08:51 GMT)

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Car bombs in three Iraqi cities killed 18 people Monday, most of them Iraqi police and security forces. A U.S. soldier also died, authorities said.
In Erbil, a suicide car bomb exploded inside the compound of an Iraqi police building, killing at least 12 people and wounding 103, a spokesman for the city's regional ministry of interior said.