A car bomb exploded Sunday morning at a police station in a town west of Baghdad, causing about 20 casualties, witnesses and the U.S. military said.

A soldier with the U.S. Army's 4th Infantry Division (Task Force Ironhorse) uses an arabian scarf to tie the feet of a suspected Fedayeen soldier arrested during a shootout with U.S. soldiers in Tikrit, north of Baghdad, early Saturday, Dec. 13, 2003. [AP]

The attack in Khaldiyah, about 50 miles west of Baghdad, took place near the main police station, witnesses said.

About 20 people were injured in the blast, said a U.S. officer at the scene. It was not immediately clear if anybody had been killed, said the officer who asked not to be named.

U.S. troops immediately blocked off the area, and two helicopters were seen hovering overhead.

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