Chlorine truck bomb attack in Ramadi injures 11

A woman cries over her son at a Baghdad hospital following February's attack in Taji. Chlorine gas reacts with water in moist tissue, such as the eyes and lungs, to create acid, which burns tissue. A few breaths containing chlorine at a thousand parts per million can be lethal.

RAMADI, Iraq, May 20 (Reuters) - A truck bomb laden with chlorine gas exploded before it rammed into a police checkpoint near the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Sunday, making 11 people sick, a local official said.

Faleh al-Dulaimi, a spokesman for an association of local tribes in western Anbar province fighting al Qaeda militants, said police opened fire on the truck before it ran into the checkpoint in the town of Zangoura, north of Ramadi.

The explosion released the gas, Dulaimi said.

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