Two bombers have struck in different parts ofTal Afar, killing at least 45 people and wounding scores more, BrigadierKarim al-Jubouri, a police spokesman, said.
The attacks on Tuesday were preceded by a suicide carbombing at a restaurant near Ramadi in Anbar province.
In total, more than 75 people werekilled in
In Tal Afar, bodies and wounded civilians were brought tohospital after the two vehicle-borne bombings. The attacks came justthree days after a marketplace suicide attack killed 10 people in the sametown, situated in northern
Soldiers waved one of the vehicles through into al-Wahaedadistrict of Tal Afar when they saw it was laden with food supplies, aftera one-week shortage.
The driver then blew up the vehicle, Ali Abboud, a doctor atthe hospital treating the wounded, said.
The other bombing took place in a parking space aroundthe same time, Jbouri said.
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Anbar attack
At least 17 people have been killed and dozenswounded after a suicide car bomb exploded outside a restaurant used by Iraqipolice on a main road north of Ramadi.
A high-ranking police officer was reported to be amongseveral policemen killed and wounded in the blast.
The blast, the latest in a string of such attacks in thewestern
Two suicide car bombs also exploded near the home of atribal leader in the Abu Ghraib district west of
Apparent target
Sheikh Thahir al-Dari, whose home was the apparent target,is the head of al-Zobaie tribe and belongs to a group opposed to al-Qaeda in
Ahmed al-Dulaimi, head of the provincial council mediaoffice in Anbar, said the sheikh's son was killed in Tuesday's double carbombing and there were several more casualties.
Salam al-Zobaie,
The deputy prime minister survived an assassination bid lastweek.
Al-Zobaie was wounded in the attack at his home in
An aide said the suicide bomber was one of his own guards.
Mortar rounds slammed into a Shia area in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing atleast four people and wounding 14, while sectarian clashes erupted for a fourthconsecutive day south of the capital.
The mortar attack occurred in Abu Dasheer, a Shiaenclave in the Sunni-dominated Dora neighbourhood in southern
In Iskandariyah, 50km south of
Clashes broke out about an hour later, leaving fourSunni fighters and one Shia fighter wounded.
The clashes were followed by a mortar attack on anearby Shia mosque.
The rounds landed in a courtyard and did not damage themosque, although a pedestrian was wounded.
A Shia man and his three sons also were wounded when amortar round struck their house in Haswa, about 5km east of Iskandariyah.
Source:Agencies