BAGHDAD, May 30 (UPI) -- Violence in central and western Iraq Thursday killed at least three people and injured 14 others, officials said.
A bomb in a car parked near the entrance of a local government facility in Ramadi was detonated near a convoy that included Anbar province's governor, Qassim al-Fahdawi, China's state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
Fahdawi wasn't injured but the explosion destroyed a vehicle and wounded two bodyguards and three bystanders, a provincial police official said.
Two border policemen were killed in an ambush along the main highway in the desert between Ramadi and Jordan, police said.
Also Thursday, a car bomb was detonated near a police patrol in Karrada district of Baghdad, killing a civilian and wounding two police officers and seven civilians, an Interior Ministry official told Xinhua.
A tally by CNN indicated nearly 400 people have been killed in acts of violence across Iraq since this month.
