Bombs in Iraq's Falluja targets Iraqi Islamic Party

Bombs in Iraq

Two bomb attacks in Iraq's western Anbar province, targeting the Iraqi Islamic Party office, killed one person and wounded 27 others on Saturday, police said.

The first bomb exploded in a truck parked near offices of the Iraqi Islamic Party office, an influential Sunni Arab political group, in the city of Falluja, followed by a second bomb that went off in a car parked on a road leading from the party offices to a local hospital, police said.
The offices of Vice-President Tareq Hashemi's Islamic party were almost completely destroyed.
The driver of the truck was killed in the blast as he attempted to get out of the vehicle, police said. Police opened fire on the second vehicle as it approached them, killing the driver and triggering explosives inside.
Police said they expected the toll to rise in the bombings, which were the largest attack for several months in Falluja, some 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad.
On Tuesday, Iraqi officials declared a rare vehicle ban across Anbar, Iraq's largest province, after two bomb attacks killed three people in the provincial capital Ramadi. A day earlier, an explosion killed two policemen in the city.
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A bulldozer removes debris from the site of bomb attack in Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad July 25, 2009.
Reuters

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