Suicide car bomb kills 5 at Iraq police station

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed four policemen and a civilian and wounded eight people on Friday when he blew up his car outside a police station just southwest of Baghdad, police said.

The bomber targeted Rasheed police station in the town of Yusufiya in an area of small towns and orchards which U.S. troops once called the "Triangle of Death" south of Baghdad.

Insurgent attacks in Iraq have decreased over the past six months, but militants have targeted U.S.-backed anti-Qaeda neighborhood patrols and police in recent weeks.

(Editing by Richard Balmforth; Baghdad newsroom)