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| Bomber hits Iraqi local council | Bomber hits Iraqi local council |
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| A suicide attacker has killed at least 12 people at a tribal council meeting in a government building in Karma, a town near Falluja, Iraqi police said. | |
| More than a dozen people were wounded in the blast, police added. | More than a dozen people were wounded in the blast, police added. |
| Karma is in the mainly Sunni Muslim province of Anbar, formerly a centre of the anti-US insurgency but which has recently seen a drop in violence. | |
| It is the third attack in a week against a local administrative branch of the US-backed Iraqi government. | It is the third attack in a week against a local administrative branch of the US-backed Iraqi government. |
| Police were quoted as saying the bomber entered the municipal government building through a back door, but it was unclear how he managed to evade security for the meeting. | |
| Local Sunni tribal leaders here and elsewhere have turned against al-Qaeda militants as part of the so-called Awakening movement. | |
| Four Americans and seven Iraqis were killed on Tuesday in a bombing at a municipal council office in the Shia area of Sadr City in Baghdad. | |
| The US military blamed that attack on infighting between rival Shia Muslim groups. | |
| Another two Americans were shot dead on Monday when a gunman opened fire on a municipal building in Madain, in an attack attributed to a disgruntled official. |