BAGHDAD — A car bomb and a suicide bomber struck a government building in the city of Ramadi on Wednesday, killing at least 24 people and wounding the governor of Anbar province, according to Iraqi police officials and witnesses.
Gov. Kassim Mohammad Fahdawi was among 57 people wounded, Anbar provincial council member Jassem Al Halbousi said. The two bombs detonated outside the provincial government building in Ramadi, about 70 miles west of Baghdad.
The bombings in Ramadi follow a string of about 40 assassination attempts in the past month in the western province of Anbar, mostly targeting politicians, police officers, religious figures and tribal sheiks, according to Iraqi police officials.
The uptick in violence has raised fears that Anbar is on the verge of a deadly relapse. The province was considered a model of American progress in Iraq after an alliance between U.S. forces and Sunni tribal leaders dampened a violent insurgency there between 2006 and 2007. The Washington Post
