By Xinhua,
Baghdad: Fourteen people were killed and 64 others injured in three car bomb attacks in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi Sunday, the interior ministry said.
“The latest police reports said a total of 14 people were killed and 64 others injured, including policemen, in twin car bombings and a suicide car bomb attack outside a hospital in Ramadi,” an official requesting anonymity said.
Two explosives-laden cars, parked in a garage outside the compound of the Anbar provincial council building, were detonated in quick succession, killing 12 people and wounding 60 others, including policemen, the source said.
In another attack, a suicide bomber detonated the explosives after police personnel at a checkpoint outside a city hospital tried to stop the car he was driving.
Two policemen were killed and four others wounded in the blast, the official added.
The government has meanwhile imposed a curfew in the city and additional security personnel were deployed on the streets to maintain law and order.
The province was once a stronghold of the Al Qaeda militants in the country.