Trio of blasts strikes Iraqi city 伊拉克城市发生三起爆炸事件

Three blasts have rocked the Iraqi city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, killing¹ at least 22 people and wounding 61, police have told the BBC.

伊拉克当地警方向BBC透露，巴格达西部城市拉马迪发生三起爆炸事件，造成至少22人死亡、61人受伤。

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The attacks shattered a relative lull in violence

A car packed with explosives ploughed into（投入，猛撞） a concrete wall at the police headquarters. A motorcycle bomb then went off among the crowd that gathered.

The third blast, an apparent car bomb, went off outside the main hospital.

A curfew（宵禁） has been imposed in Ramadi, capital of Anbar province, which was once a centre of the Sunni insurgency³.

Eyewitness⁴ Musaab Ali Mohammed said he was buying cigarettes near the police headquarters when he heard a big explosion.

"I saw police cars and firefighters, and they started to carry out the wounded and dead. Minutes later, a second explosion took place," he told the Associated Press news agency.

"After that, policemen started to fire in the air and called upon civilians⁵ to leave, fearing a third blast," the eyewitness added.

Anbar has been relatively⁶ stable since Sunni fighters turned against al-Qaeda and joined forces with the US and Iraqi security forces.

But recent weeks have seen a series of attacks on police and Iraqi army checkpoints in Anbar.

On Tuesday, a car bomb killed at least nine people in a market in Falluja. A day earlier, a suicide bomber⁷ killed six mourners at a funeral in Haditha.

The dead and injured in the latest attacks include both police and civilians.