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| Ramadi suicide bombing 'kills 20' | |
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| A suicide truck bombing in the restive Iraqi city of Ramadi has killed at least 20 people, police say. | |
| A police commander in Ramadi said a police checkpoint had been targeted. | |
| Elsewhere, police said clashes had erupted between US and Iraqi forces and fighters from the Shia Mehdi Army militia in the city of Diwaniya. | |
| A ban on vehicles has been imposed on the city following a raid by security forces at about 0500 (0100 GMT), police sources in the southern city said. | |
| A number of American vehicles have been destroyed in the fighting, police sources told the BBC. | |
| There have been a series of sectarian killings in Diwaniya - which is 180km (110 miles) south of Baghdad - in recent days, a source in the governor's office said. | |
| Injuries | |
| A police commander in Ramadi said the truck had been driven into a police checkpoint in the western part of the city and the bomb detonated. | |
| There are reports that several policemen were killed. Thirty people have been reported injured. | |
| The bombing was in a densely populated district and there are fears many of the casualties are civilians. | |
| Some reports said the bomb had released chlorine gas. | |
| There have been 10 bombings in Anbar province this year using chlorine gas as a weapon. | |
| Ramadi has been a centre of the Sunni-led insurgency against coalition forces and the Iraqi government. |