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10 killed in Ramadi bombing attack

20 February 2010 01:11 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. A car bombing has rocked Ramadi in the western Iraqi province of al-Anbar, leaving at least 10 people, including four policemen, killed, APA reports quoting Al Jazeera.

Hospital officials said the blast hit a checkpoint on Thursday near local government offices in the city of Ramadi, 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of Baghdad, AFP reported.

The incident, which occurred at 11 a.m. (08:00 GMT), also left another 15 people injured, the hospital source said on the condition of anonymity.

Iraq has seen a rise in deadly attacks as the war-weary nation awaits the country’s March 7 parliamentary elections.

On Tuesday, a car bomb blast targeted a police forensics office in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, killing two officers and wounding nine others.

A day earlier, two people were killed and seven others wounded in the capital city of Baghdad and in the northern city of Kirkuk.

In another incident also on Sunday, a Christian was killed in a drive-by shooting in front of his house in Mosul.

Iraq has been witnessing unrelenting bombing and terror attacks since the US-led invasion in 2003 turned the country into a hotbed of militancy by Wahhabi extremists and al-Qaeda-linked militants.

The Maplecroft’s Terrorism Risk Index earlier this week ranked Iraq â€” for the second straight year â€” as the riskiest country in the globe in terms of political violence and terror attacks. The UK-based group also noted that more than 4,500 civilians were killed by terrorist attacks across Iraq in 2009.