Car bomb blast strikes Iraqi city !Seven people have been killed and 13 others wounded after a car bomb exploded in a city in Iraq's western Anbar province.
Police sources told Al Jazeera that the blast, which occured during rush hour in the city of Fallujah, came from a parked car and was not a suicide attack.
"The blast rocked the area and I found myself suddenly on the floor,"Mohammed Abdullah, a shopkeeper who was wounded in the blast, was reported by the Reuters news agency as saying.
"Once I saw the smoke and the burning car, I immediately knew it was a bomb."
The attack appeared to target an army convoy in Fallujah, which lies about 50km west of the capital Baghdad.
The blast comes in the wake of Iraq's parliamentary election.
In Anbar, a Sunni Muslim dominated province, where 58 per cent of the vote has been counted so far, the secular Iraqiya coalition is leading the vote.
Fallujah was once a hotbed of the Sunni insurgency agaisnt the US-led invasion of Iraq, but security there has improved in recent years.
Since 2006, Sunni tribesmen and former anti-US fighters have joined forces with the US military against al-Qaeda, greatly reducing the groups' presence in the area.
Source:Al Jazeera and agencies / Bulgaria Today
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