Suicide attacks targeting a police checkpoint and a Shia Muslim procession in western and central Iraq have killed up to 14 people including six policemen and a journalist.
In the western city of Ramadi, a suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives near Anbar provincial government offices, killing 11 people, including six policemen.
The blast occurred at a police checkpoint in the centre of the city, 100 kilometres west of Baghdad, and left 41 people wounded.
The force of the explosion destroyed three cars and left a crater two metres across.
A police officer explained: 'Lots of people were waiting to go into the governorate building when the car exploded close to the checkpoint.'
He continued: 'I saw bodies blown into the air, people were screaming, others were running in all directions.'
A doctor at Ramadi hospital, who spoke on condition of anonymity, put the toll at 11 dead and 41 wounded.
Among the dead were six police officers and a cameraman for local satellite television channel Al-Anbar TV.
