Baghdad — A suicide car bomber hit a police station in northeast Baghdad on Thursday morning, killing 10 people including two people in the car, police and the U.S. military said.

Also Thursday morning, an attaché to the Spanish embassy in Baghdad, Jose Antonio Bernal Gomez, was shot dead outside his home in the Iraqi capital, the Spanish Foreign Ministry said.

Capt. Sean Kirley said three policemen and five civilians were killed. Iraqi police Capt. Bassem Sami said two more people died in the car that exploded. He said 28 people were wounded.

Police Maj. Majid Abdel-Hameed said the car was a white Oldsmobile. The driver drove through the police compound gate, was fired at by officers and then detonated the bomb.

Dozens of ambulances raced toward the facility in the Shiite Muslim slum known as Sadr City. The attack happened just as policemen were lining up in the courtyard of the station for the morning role call.