DHAKA: The police chief of Iraq’s Anbar province, where Islamic State militants are advancing, has been killed in a roadside bomb.
Iraq officials say, reports the BBC.
Major General Ahmed Saddag was killed when the bomb targeted his convoy near the provincial capital Ramadi.
In a separate attack, 22 soldiers were killed in a triple car bomb attack in Diyala province in eastern Iraq.
Islamic State militants have seized large parts of Iraq and Syria in recent months, pushing back Iraqi forces.
BDST: 1855 HRS, OCT 12, 2014
