Two suicide car bombers attacked a market and a police post in separate attacks outside the Iraqi town of Ramadi Monday, killing 20 people and injuring dozens of others, police said.
The first attack targeted a public market about noon just outside of Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, killing 10 civilians and wounding about 30 others, police said, according to the AP. Some 15 minutes later, another car bomber detonated his vehicle at a police checkpoint north of Ramadi, killing five police officers and five bystanders and wounding 10 others, the police said.
Meanwhile, four Iraqis were arrested early Monday after troops found a load of explosives planted under an oil pipeline in northern Iraq that carries crude oil to Turkey, the Iraqi Army said.
About 150 kilograms of TNT were discovered under a stretch of the pipeline in the al-Kisk area, some 80 kilometers west of Mosul, said Col. Mohammed Ahmed, a spokesman for the 3rd Iraqi Army division. The explosives were removed and safely destroyed without injuries, he said.
