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Policeman, 3 civilians wounded in central Falluja blast

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: Four persons, including a policeman, were wounded when an improvised explosive device went off near a police patrol in central al-Falluja city on Sunday, a local security source said. “The IED blast targeted a police patrol in al-Andalus neighborhood, central Falluja, wounding one policeman and three civilians who happened to be near the attack site,” the source told Iraqi News. “The wounded were rushed to a nearby hospital,” the source added, not giving further details. Falluja, the largest city in the predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar, lies 45 km west of Baghdad. AmR (P) 1