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Truck bomb kills 25 near Ramadi - Iraq police
24 Apr 2007 16:09:16 GMT
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RAMADI, Iraq, April 24 (Reuters) - A suicide truck bomb killed 25 people and wounded 44 others near the Iraqi insurgent stronghold of Ramadi on Tuesday, police said.

The attack took place near a makeshift football field and market in the Albufarraj area east of Ramadi as a police patrol passed by.

Police, women and children were among the dead, police said.

Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, is the capital of the volatile Anbar province, a bastion of the Sunni Arab insurgency. Militants from Sunni al Qaeda and local Sunni tribes are engaged in a bitter power struggle in Anbar.

On Monday, three suicide car bombers killed 20 people and wounded 35 others in Ramadi.

Witnesses have said there is a heavy police presence in Ramadi after police had received information that car bombs and suicide bomb vests were in the area.


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