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Suicide attack west of Baghdad; at least 12 dead
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-06-26 22:09

BAGHDAD -- A suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt Thursday inside a municipal government building west of Baghdad, killing at least 12 people attending a meeting of tribal sheiks, police said.


An Iraqi soldier stands guard at the scene of an explosion near the Imam Abbas shrine in Karbala, 120 kms south of Baghdad, June 25. A suicide bomber has blown himself in a municipal office in western Iraq, killing the local mayor and at least 14 senior members of an anti-Qaeda front, Iraqi officials told AFP. [Agencies]

Col. Fawzi Fraih, civil defense director of Anbar province, said the sheiks were members of a group opposed to al-Qaida in Iraq and were meeting with Americans when the attack occurred in Karmah, about 20 miles west of Baghdad.

The US military would not confirm whether Americans were inside the building during the attack, the third against a municipal government meeting in Iraq this week.

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