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Fallujah: Bomb attacks in Iraq have left close to 40 people dead on Thursday, police said.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a tribal council meeting in Iraq's Anbar province killing 20 people, days before US forces are due to hand the province over to Iraqi control, police said.
In another attack, at least 18 people were killed and 62 wounded in a car bomb in the northern city of Mosul, the governor of the surrounding province of Nineveh said.
Twelve people were wounded in the attack against US-backed Sunni Arab tribal leaders in the Anbar town of Garma, northwest of Baghdad.
The US military does not have any immediate plans to postpone the handover in response to the bombing, a source said.
The suicide bomber attacked a meeting between the tribal council of Garma, made up of local tribal leaders, and the district council head, who was killed in the attack.
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