Explosive charge kills passports officer in west Iraq’s Anbar Province

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: An officer with lt. Brigadier rank in west Iraq’s Anbar Passport office had been killed in an explosive charge blast in his car west of Ramadi, the center of the Province, an Anbar police source said on Monday. “An explosive charge blew off under the car of Lt. Brigadier, Abdul-Karim Hamid, one of the officers of Anbar’s Passport Department, when he drove his car west of Ramadi, and he died in hospital due to the injuries caused by the attack,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency, adding that his car was seriously damaged as well. Ramadi, the center of Anbar Province, is 110 km to the west of Baghdad. SKH/SR 3