A suicide attacker has killed at least 12 people at a tribal council meeting in a government building in Karma, a town near Falluja, Iraqi police said.More than a dozen people were wounded in the blast, police added.
Karma is in the mainly Sunni Muslim province of Anbar, formerly a centre of the anti-US insurgency but which has recently seen a drop in violence.
It is the third attack in a week against a local administrative branch of the US-backed Iraqi government.
Police were quoted as saying the bomber entered the municipal government building through a back door, but it was unclear how he managed to evade security for the meeting.
Local Sunni tribal leaders here and elsewhere have turned against al-Qaeda militants as part of the so-called Awakening movement.
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