27 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the central Iraqi city of Ramadi.
A suicide bomber targeting a police station exploded his truck full of chlorine gas in a residential area of the city
The deaths marked the biggest chemical attack by insurgents in Iraq since the invasion.
30 more people were injured in the blast.
First reports had said that 20 people had been killed, but the toll was later amended by police in Iraq.
They said the bomber was targeting a police station but blew himself up 200 metres away from it, near the residental area of Al-Tamim.
The explosion occurred next to a market and residential buildings.
Police said the truck contained many tonnes of chlorine and TNT which were covered by sacks full of fertilisers.
Earlier the body of a journalist from the US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty was found dead in Baghdad with gun shot wounds.
Khamail Khalaf, a reporter for the radio's Arabic service, was last seen on 3 April.
