At least three people were killed and 14 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack at a primary school in Iraq's Anbar province on Monday, a provincial police source told Xinhua
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A suicide bomber drove his explosive-laden car into al-Kifah primary school in the city of Hit, some 160 km west of the capital Baghdad, killing two pupils and a female teacher and wounding 14 others, the source said on condition of anonymity.
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Iraqi security forces sealed off the scene as ambulances and civilian cars evacuated the casualties, the source said.
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The blast caused severe damages to the school building and nearby buildings, the source added.
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The attack came as the schools in Iraq started their second day of the new school year after about three months of summer holiday.
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Insurgent attacks continue in the once volatile Sunni Arab area in west of Baghdad that stretches through Anbar province to Iraq's western borders with Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
