Two suicide car bomb attacks struck a police checkpoint near the city of Ramadi on Saturday, killing at least five people and wounding more than five others, a local police source said.
The incident occurred in the afternoon when a suicide bomber drove his explosive-laden car into the checkpoint in the Albu Farraj area, just outside Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
As security forces and people gathered at the scene, another suicide bomber rammed his booby-trapped car into the crowd, the source said.
A total of at least five people killed and more than five others wounded by the two attacks, the source added.
He said that the toll could rise as ambulances and civilian cars were evacuating victims to the city hospitals.
Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq in the past months, but insurgents seem capable of carrying out deadly attacks.
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