Falluja blast’s initial casualties 4 deaths, 11 wounded

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: The initial count of casualties from central Falluja’s earlier car bomb blast reached four deaths and 11 wounded, according to a medic at al-Falluja Public Hospital. “Four persons, including a military man, were killed and 11 civilians others wounded in an initial count of casualties from the car bomb attack in central Falluja,” the source told IraqiNews.com on customary condition of anonymity. “Three of the wounded were admitted into the large operation theater at the hospital due to the seriousness of their injuries,” he added. IraqiNews.com correspondent, quoting a security source who did not want his name mentioned, said that security forces tightened measures around the hospital lest armed groups should target medics. Earlier, eyewitnesses told IraqiNews.com that a car bomb attack waged by a suicide bomber near a military patrol in central al-Falluja left an unidentified number of people killed or wounded and eight vehicles ablaze. “A car bomb blast targeted a military patrol near Dayf al-Rahman bridge in central Falluja, leaving a number killed or wounded,” the eyewitnesses said. A military source said that the blast left one military vehicle and seven civilian vehicles ablaze. 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 (S) 1