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Six killed in Iraq bomb attack

Iraq - Car bomb attack in market
Iraq - Car bomb attack in market

Six people have been killed and 21 injured in a car bomb at a market in Iraq's Anbar province.

The blast occurred in Haditha, 190km west of Baghdad.

Several high-profile bombings hit Anbar last month, prompting a rare temporary vehicle ban across the desert province, Iraq's largest.

A week ago, a suicide bomber killed four people at a funeral tent in the Anbar city of Falluja. A day earlier, a car bomb killed five people there.

On 21 July, the provincial capital Ramadi declared a state of emergency after bombs killed three people.

Anbar, once an al Qaeda haven and the centre of a Sunni Arab insurgency, had been relatively quiet for months after tribal leaders in 2006 turned on the Sunni Islamist militants dominating the region.

The Haditha blast came two days after a series of apparently coordinated bomb attacks near Shia mosques in Baghdad killed 31 people and wounded scores.