Suicide car bomber kills 11 in Iraq

| | Ramadi

A suicide bomber blew up a vehicle in the town of Al-Qaim in western Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 11 people, five of them security personnel, police said. The 9 am bombing at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Al-Qaim also wounded 16 people — 11 civilians and five security personnel, police Captain Mahmud Jassem told. The town, on the Syrian border some 340 kilometres (215 miles) from Baghdad.