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| Suicide Bomber Kills 37 In Western Iraq | |
| 2014-09-01 | |
| [Ynet] Thirty seven people were killed when a jacket wallah rammed an explosives-packed Humvee military vehicle into a construction site, used by the army and police, according to two coppers and a medical official. The blast killed 22 security personnel and 15 civilians, the medical and police sources said. The nine-storey building under construction, used as a base by security personnel, was located in the centre of Ramadi in western Anbar province.
One blast hit an under-construction building manned by Iraqi special forces in the city west of Baghdad, while the second struck a joint special forces-police checkpoint, the sources said. Iraqi forces have struggled to regain control of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, from turbans who have held shifting areas of the city since early this year. The blasts in Ramadi came as Iraqi security forces, Shiite militias and Kurdish fighters broke a months-long jihadist siege of the town of Amerli, the government's biggest offensive victory since the Lion of Islam drive began. | |
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