At least 12 people were killed and 17 others wounded in bomb attacks targeting the security forces and senior officials in Iraq's western province of Anbar on Tuesday, a provincial police source said.

In one of the attacks, a suicide bomber blew up his explosive- laden car at the entrance of the house of Waqass Adnan, mayor of the city of Aana, some 250 km west of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The huge blast was immediately followed by a coordinated attack on the guards of the house, apparently in an attempt to break into the house, the source said.

The battle resulted in the killing of four policemen and a brother of the mayor, and the wounding of four policemen, while the mayor himself escaped unharmed, the source said, adding four of the gunmen were also killed by the clashes.

Meanwhile, another suicide bomber rammed his explosive-packed car and blew it up at the entrance of Aana police station, killing two policemen and wounding three others, the source said.

In a separate incident, gunmen fired four mortar rounds on a police station in the nearby city of Rawa, about 255 km west of Baghdad, killing a policeman and wounding seven others, he said.

In addition, the gunmen blew up a booby-trapped car under the bridge between the two cities of Aana and Rawa, and part of bridge was destroyed, the source added.

Ziad Tariq, an officer in Anbar's provincial operations command, escaped unharmed a roadside bomb explosion near his convoy in the provincial capital city of Ramadi, some 100 km west of Baghdad, wounding three of his bodyguards.

Insurgent attacks continue in the volatile Sunni Arab area in west of Baghdad that stretches through Anbar province to Iraq's western borders with Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

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