Iraq Double Bombings Kill 15

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FALLUJAH: At least 15 people were killed and 147 wounded as two suicide car bomb attacks targeting Iraqi police ripped through the western city of Fallujah on Thursday, a defence ministry source said.

The source said that women figured among the dead, while civilians and police were among the wounded as the two almost simultaneous blasts damaged police posts in western and eastern Fallujah.

A news agency correspondent said that several bodies were left splayed out on the ground. A curfew was imposed in the two districts after the blasts.

"The two suicide car bombers burst into the two police centres in the western neighbourhood of Golan and the eastern area of Shurta, almost at the same time at around 0800 GMT," a security official said.

Official Iraqi figures show that violence across the country climbed in November, with 340 Iraqis killed compared with 317 in October.

Iraq has seen dramatic security gains over the past year as US and Iraqi forces have allied with local militias to expel insurgents, but some regions, notably Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul, still see near-daily attacks.

On November 9, a female suicide bomber exploded in front of a hospital near Fallujah, killing a woman, a doctor and his wife.

Fallujah, 50 kilometres (30 miles) from Baghdad, is one of the main cities in the western province of Anbar, which was the epicentre of the Sunni-led rebellion against US forces in the months following the March 2003 invasion.

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