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APBAGHDAD (AP) — A curfew was imposed Wednesday in a former insurgent stronghold west of the capital as security forces searched door-to-door after a suicide bomb attack the day before, an Iraqi police official said.
The curfew comes as a wave of violence hit Iraq this week, primarily in Baghdad, and the Interior Ministry, warning of the likelihood of more attacks, said measures were being taken to try to prevent them.
The curfew in Fallujah began at dawn, said the official. Vehicles and pedestrians are banned from the streets while authorities look for anyone connected to Tuesday's suicide car bomb.
The bomb exploded at a police checkpoint, killing three people and wounding seven others. Fallujah is a traditional Sunni stronghold in Anbar province and the site of some of the fiercest fighting during the war.
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FALLUJA, Iraq, April 8 (Reuters) - Iraqi police shut down the city of Falluja on Wednesday, banning traffic and pedestrians as they hunted and arrested dozens of people suspected of being al Qaeda bombers.
Schools were closed, shops told to be shuttered and a curfew put in place from daybreak to late afternoon after explosions targeting police in the dusty city in the western desert province of Anbar, once the heartland of Sunni Islamist resistance to the U.S. occupation.
Around 35 people were arrested, a police official said, asking not to be named.
Most of those arrested had recently been freed by the U.S. military from its detention centres or were suspected in the past of being al Qaeda sympathisers, said Lieutenant-Colonel Aziz Faisal of Falluja police. He declined to confirm the number of arrests.
"We have received intelligence tips that they committed criminal attacks, using bombs, in the city recently," he said.