In Iraq, nine people were killed and 31 others wounded when a car bomb exploded in the town of Amiriya near the western Iraqi city of Falluja.<br/> Reports quoting leader of Amiriya town council Sharqiya al-Isawi have said that at least five of the dead were police personnel. A number of cars were set alight by the explosion. <br/> It was the second bomb in Anbar province in two days. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral in the western town of Haditha killing six people on Monday.