Ramadi, September 27: A suicide car bomber on Sunday killed four Iraqi policemen and wounded four others near the predominantly Sunni Arab western city of Ramadi, a police official said.
The attack happened around 10.30 am (0830 GMT) 10 kilometres (six miles) north east of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, which was an Al-Qaeda stronghold in the aftermath of the US-led invasion in 2003.
“The suicide bomber blew himself up at the gate at the entrance to the police station, causing the casualties,” the police official said.
Ramadi is situated 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Baghdad.
Anbar, Iraq’s biggest province, became the theatre of a brutal war focused on the cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, while several towns along the Euphrates river valley became insurgent strongholds and later safe havens for fighters.
But since 2006 local Sunni tribes there have sided with the US military. Daily violence has dropped dramatically in Anbar as Al-Qaeda fighters have been ejected from the region.
—Agencies