11 killed, 18 wounded in suicide attack targeting ceremony commemorating Prophet’s birthday in Iraq’s Ramadi

A suicide bomber killed at least 11 people and wounded 18 others, including provincial deputy governor Hekmat Jassim Zaidan, in the Iraqi city of Ramadi on Thursday.

The bomber blew himself up during a ceremony held to commemorate  the birth of the Muslim Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) in the western Iraqi city of Ramadi on Thursday.

According to an officer in the media office of the local police, the attacker detonated his explosives-packed vest in the center where the commemorations were ongoing.

The ceremonies were part of month-long commemorations in Ramadi, capital of Anbar province and 100 kilometers (60 miles) west of the Iraqi capital, marking the prophet's birth.