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Islamic State (Isis) claimed responsibility yesterday for a spate of suicide bombings that caused dozens of deaths in Iraq, including that of Anbar provincial police commander Brigadier General Ahmed al-Dulaimi.
Brig Gen Dulaimi was killed while travelling in a convoy north of the provincial capital Ramadi through an area cleared by Iraqi security forces a day earlier.
His death followed a triple suicide bombing that killed 26 Kurdish security forces in Qara Tappah in the ethnically and communally mixed Diyala province.
A first bomber detonated an explosive vest at the gateway to a security compound that also houses the office of a Kurdish political party.
Minutes later, two suicide bombers ploughed cars filled with explosives into the compound, causing heavy damage.
At least 60 people were wounded in the attack.
A series of car-bomb attacks on Saturday killed at least 45 people in Shi’ite-majority areas of the capital Baghdad, for which Isis also claimed responsibility.
