At least 20 people were killed and more than 100 were wounded in twin bomb attacks in Iraq's Anbar province, police said today.
Police in Ramadi said the attacks took place in quick succession in the city, located 100 km west of Baghdad. Many of those wounded were from Iraqi security forces.
Police Colonel Jabbar Ajaj said the first blast, in which a suicide bomber detonated explosives in a vehicle, was followed shortly afterwards by a second suicide attack, this time carried out by a bomber on foot.
A source at the hospital said that, after the first attack took place near the provincial headquarters, the governor came out from his office to inspect the damage.
One of the attackers was a man working as a bodyguard for the governor, Iraqiya reported. Police said that Mohammed seemed to be the target of at least one of the attacks.
Reuters