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| Ramadi hit by twin bomb attacks | Ramadi hit by twin bomb attacks |
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| Two suicide car bombers have killed 20 people around the town of Ramadi, north of Baghdad, Iraqi police say. | Two suicide car bombers have killed 20 people around the town of Ramadi, north of Baghdad, Iraqi police say. |
| The first exploded in a busy market in a town just outside Ramadi, killing 10 people and injuring 30. | The first exploded in a busy market in a town just outside Ramadi, killing 10 people and injuring 30. |
| Five policemen and five bystanders were killed some 15 minutes later, with 10 others wounded. | Five policemen and five bystanders were killed some 15 minutes later, with 10 others wounded. |
| The attacks came after about 100 Iraqis were either killed or found dead on Sunday, and eight American soldiers and a European journalist died in attacks. | The attacks came after about 100 Iraqis were either killed or found dead on Sunday, and eight American soldiers and a European journalist died in attacks. |
| Six US troops and a journalist, who was not identified, were killed by a roadside bomb in Diyala province, the US military said. | |
| The two other US soldiers died in attacks in the capital, Baghdad. | |
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| Monday's bombings in Ramadi were both carried out by suicide car bombers, police and security sources said. | |
| "Ten were killed in each explosion and both were from suicide car bombs," Tariq al-Dulaimi, a senior security official in Anbar province, told the AFP news agency. | |
| The Reuters agency said the first bomb hit a market in the town of Albu Thiyab, just outside Ramadi. | |
| The second attack targeted a police checkpoint in a town called al-Jazeera, a police colonel said. | |
| Ramadi and its outlying town and villages have long been a target for mainly Anbar's Sunni insurgents, and are frequently hit by bombers. |