A suicide bomber blew himself up during a ceremony in a cultural centre in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi Thursday, killing 15 people and wounding 21, government officials and a hospital source said.
The bomber attacked during a commemoration of Prophet Mohammad's birthday, said Anbar province Deputy Governor Hikmet Khalaf, who was injured in the explosion.
"We were in the middle of a ceremony to celebrate the anniversary of Prophet Mohammad's birthday when a male suicide bomber came to the door of the room and said 'God is Greatest' and blew himself up," Khalaf told Reuters.
A medical source at the local hospital said the blast killed 15 people and wounded 21 others.
The sprawling desert province of Anbar was the heartland of a Sunni Islamist insurgency after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Its main cities, Ramadi and Falluja, witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of the war.
Reuters
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