BAGHDAD, April 22 (Xinhua) -- Twin suicide car bombings struck a police station in southern Baghdad on Sunday, killing up to 12 people and wounding 95 others, including dozens of policemen, an Interior Ministry source said.

    "Our final reports put the toll at 12 people killed, including two policemen, and 95 others wounded, including 40 policemen," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

    Earlier, the source said that the twin suicide car bomb attacks targeted a two-story police station in southern Baghdad killed 10 people and wounded 75 others.

    Shortly after 10:00 a.m. (0600 GMT) a suicide car bomber drove an explosive-laden car into the entrance of a police station in the Eilam neighborhood targeting the front barriers of station, the source said.

    "The first attack paved the way for another suicide bomber who rammed his car bomb into the police station building," he said. The police station building was crowded with policemen as the place is serving as temporary headquarters for police from Doura, another southern neighborhood in Baghdad, after a suicide truck bomber destroyed their building last month.

    The double attack heavily damaged the police station building and destroyed dozens of police vehicles and civilian cars, he added.

    The attack destroyed several nearby buildings, including a car service center. Pools of blood and human flesh scattered at the scene.

    Insurgents often attack Iraqi security forces accusing them of collaboration with U.S.-backed Iraqi Shiite dominated government. Violence persists in Baghdad despite the presence of tens of thousands of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers across the capital in a major security crackdown aimed at curbing insurgency and sectarian violence in the war-torn country.