10 killed in twin bombing in western Iraq
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The governor of Anbar province in western Iraq escaped the twin bomb attacks that killed ten people and wounded 40 others in the provincial capital city of Ramadi on Wednesday morning, a senior official said.
"The news about the death of the Anbar governor is not true, and the fact is that governor went to visit the site of a car bombing when another explosion took place and the governor was slightly wounded and transported to the hospital," Shiekh Dhari al- Erssan, deputy of the governor told reporters.
Earlier, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua that ten people were killed, including Qassim Mahmmed Abid, governor of the province, when a car bomb followed by a suicide bomb attacks struck the provincial council building in the city of Ramadi, some 100 km west of Baghdad.
The first blast took place in the morning when a car bomb went off outside the provincial council in Ramadi, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Later, Abid and some senior officials of the provincial council left their offices to the entrance of the council to see the site of the car bombing, but a suicide bomber blew his explosive vest close to the group, the source said.
A total of ten people were killed and some 40 others were wounded by the blasts, according to the source.
Earlier in the day, the source put the toll at ten killed and 30 injured.
Insurgent attacks increase recently in the once volatile province of Anbar, which has been relatively calm for more than two years after Sunni tribes and anti-U.S. insurgent groups turned to cooperate with the U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces against al-Qaida network in Iraq.
