8 New Blasts Heard in City After Sundown; Car Bomb Kills 4 in Fallujah

Car Bomb Kills at Least Four in Fallujah; Eight New Blasts Heard in City After Sundown

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) - A car bomb exploded Tuesday near a police station on a major street in the tense city of Fallujah, killing at least four people, police said. The attack came a day after a series of suicide bombings in Baghdad left about three dozen dead.

Later Tuesday, eight massive explosions were heard after sundown in Fallujah, coming from the southern area of the city. U.S. officials in Baghdad said they were unaware of the explosions, which residents described as "deafening."

The violence in Fallujah came after a string of bold and deadly attacks in the Iraqi capital targeting the U.S.-led occupation and Iraqis who are perceived as working with it.

In Baghdad, the U.S. occupation authority announced that gunmen killed one of the capital's three deputy mayors in a hit-and-run shooting Sunday - the same day that insurgents hammered a Baghdad hotel with rockets, killing an American soldier.

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