Truck bombing kills 15 in Ramadi

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At least 15 people have been killed and 25 wounded in a suicide bomb attack on the outskirts of Ramadi, in central Iraq, police say.

The truck bomb exploded as an Iraqi police patrol passed a street market 3km (two miles) north of the city.

The attack comes a day after three separate car bombings killed 29 people, mostly police officers, in the city.

Nine US soldiers were also killed in a suicide bombing near Baqouba, the worst US loss on the ground since late 2005.

Some 20 troops and an Iraqi civilian were also injured when the car bomb exploded outside their patrol base.

More than 3,300 US troops have been killed and some 24,300 have been injured in Iraq since the conflict began.

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A senior police official in Ramadi said both police and civilians were among those killed in Tuesday's bombing.

"There was great damage to buildings at the scene, which is a built-up residential area," Tariq al-Dulaimi told the AFP news agency.

In other violence, at least four people were killed and 10 wounded in a mortar attack in the south-eastern Baghdad suburb of Zafaraniya.

Elsewhere in the capital, two roadside bombs exploded on Palestine Street, killing one person and wounding two others.

Another died at a dentistry college in Baghdad, when a bomb exploded in the locker of the son of Iraq's electricity minister, Karim Wahid.

Fadi Karim Wahid was one of two people wounded by the blast.