ANBAR, Iraq
The police chief of Iraq’s western province of Anbar was killed in a bomb explosion Sunday, an official said.
Ahmad al-Dulaimi was reviewing police officers in the north of center Iraq province of Ramadi when a bomb went off, said Anbar City Council President Sabah Kerhut.
Several other members of the security forces were also killed or wounded during the explosion, according to Kerhut.
A curfew was declared in fear of an attack on control points or security centers by the militant movement Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The Iraqi army is engaged in heavy fighting with ISIL militants after the extremist group took control of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, in addition to other large areas of the country in mid-June.
The U.S. is leading an international coalition against ISIL, using airstrikes to target their positions in Iraq and Syria.
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