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Bombers kill five at Iraq provincial govt compound

Thursday, 17 April 2014



RAMADI, April 16 (AFP): Two suicide bombers blew up vehicles packed with explosives outside a government compound in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Wednesday killing five people, police and a doctor said.
The twin attacks come as Iraq's security forces battle to win back control of Anbar province after militants overran parts of Ramadi and all of the city of Fallujah, to its east, in early January.
The bombers each attacked one of the two entrances to the compound, which includes the governor's office, provincial council building and a military headquarters, a police lieutenant colonel and an army captain said.
The blasts killed three soldiers, a policeman and a civilian and wounded 12 other people, a doctor said.