7 wounded in 4th blast in Anbar Sunday

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: An explosive vehicle driven by a suicide bomber went off in the village of al-Halabsa, west of al-Falluja, leaving seven persons, including three policemen, wounded in the fourth blast to rock the province of al-Anbar on Sunday, a local police source said. “A suicide bomber driving an explosive vehicle attacked a policed checkpoint in al-Nassaf area, al-Halabsa village, wounding seven persons, including three policemen, and causing severe damage to nearby stores,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “Security forces cordoned off the blast site out of fears of more attacks,” he said. A security source had said earlier on Sunday that two persons were killed and nine others wounded in a car bomb blast in central Falluja while eight persons were wounded in another car bomb attack in the northern part of the city. He earlier said that five civilians, including two policemen, were killed and 29 others, mostly women and children, wounded in a car bomb blast driven by a suicide bomber in central al-Ramadi city. Falluja, the largest city of the predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar, lies 45 km west of Baghdad. Ramadi, the province’s capital city, is 110 km west of Baghdad. AmR (P) 2