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Four killed in Iraq bombings
Baghdad (AFP) Dec 13, 2009 Four people including a young girl and an army recruit were killed in bombings across Iraq on Sunday, police and medical officials said. In the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, around 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Baghdad, separate attacks killed three people and wounded 11. A car bomb, apparently targeting a senior policeman in the town of Gharmah on Fallujah's outskirts, killed an eight-year-old girl and another man at around 10:00 am (0700 GMT). The girl had been on her way to school, a Fallujah police officer said on condition of anonymity. Lieutenant Colonel Saad al-Shemmari, commander of the area's police emergency response squad, was unharmed but seven members of his escort convoy were wounded. Several cars were also damaged in the blast, which came as Shemmari was on his way to work. In Fallujah itself, meanwhile, a policeman was killed and four others were wounded, including one woman, when several bombs exploded around the officer's home, a police official who declined to be named said. The security situation in Fallujah -- in Anbar province west of Baghdad and a one-time major bastion of the Sunni Arab insurgency -- has improved dramatically in recent months as attacks have dropped nationwide. However, sporadic violence still plagues Anbar, Iraq's largest province. It was the theatre of a brutal war after the US-led invasion of 2003, mainly in Fallujah and the provincial capital Ramadi. In the restive northern city of Mosul on Sunday, one person was killed and 20 others wounded by a car bomb near an army recruitment centre, a security official and a doctor in the city's al-Salam Hospital said. strs-psr/srm
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