RAMADI, Iraq (AFP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a restaurant in the former insurgent stronghold of Ramadi in western Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 13 people, the city's police chief told AFP.
Major General Tareq al-Youssef said another 14 people were also wounded in the attack which occurred at around 12:30 pm (0930 GMT).
He said the restaurant was located near the western outskirts of the city, the capital of Sunni Anbar province.
Ramadi, 100 kilometres (62 miles) west of Baghdad, was a key Sunni insurgent stronghold in the aftermath of the toppling of Saddam Hussein's regime by US-led forces in 2003.
But since 2006 local Sunni tribes there have sided with the US military to fight Al-Qaeda in Iraq militants.
Since then daily violence has reduced drastically in Anbar province as Al-Qaeda fighters have been pushed out of the region.
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