Five killed in Falluja attack
At least five people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack in the Iraqi flashpoint town of Falluja.
A suicide bomber is believed to have blown himself up outside a school near the main police station in the town, killing four civilians. Some of the victims are understood to be children.
Classes at the boys’ school had finished for the day and the building was closed when the bomb went off, close to a power station.
Falluja lies about 50 kilometres (30 miles) west of Baghdad and is a stronghold of supporters of ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. It has been the scene of the some of the bitterest opposition to the coalition occupation.
On Monday a wave of suicide bomb attacks on police stations and a building used by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Baghdad left 35 people dead and more than 200 injured.
Hours later a coalition soldier and two civilians were injured when a device exploded on a road in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
British and American leaders have suggested that the latest wave attacks might be the work of “foreign elements”, non-Iraqi fighters opposed to the US-led war.
