Iraq's protest region faces suicide bomb attack

Iraq officials have said a lawmaker has been killed in a bomb attack on Tuesday in the restive Anbar province [2], to the west of Baghdad [3].

The governor of the province, Qassim al-Fahdawi, says that the as-yet unnamed person was killed in an suicide attack, according to reports by AP. It is thought that the individual was a Sunni Muslim [4].

The region has been dogged by protests [5] in recent weeks by Iraq's minority Sunny population against the Shia-led Baghdad government.

The recent protests were started after the mass-arrest of bodyguards [6] assigned to Iraq’s Sunni finance minister. The slain lawmaker was from the same al-Issawi tribe as the government minister.

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