Car bomb blast in Falluja leaves casualties

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: A car bomb attack waged by a suicide bomber near a military patrol in central al-Falluja on Sunday left an unidentified number of people killed or wounded and eight vehicles ablaze, according to eyewitnesses and a security source. “A car bomb blast targeted a military patrol near Dayf al-Rahman bridge in central Falluja, leaving a number killed or wounded,” eyewitnesses told IraqiNews.com news agency correspondent. A military source also told IraqiNews.com that the blast left one military vehicle and seven civilian vehicles ablaze. He did not give further details due to failure to accurately survey the number of casualties. Security forces cordoned off the area between Falluja’s eastern entrance and al-Nofous intersection in the central part of the city. Falluja, the largest city in the predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar, lies 45 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 1