Nine Iraqi were killed on Thursday, including three policemen, when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a bank in the northwestern city Haditha.

Nine Iraqi were killed on Thursday, including three policemen, when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a bank in the northwestern city Haditha, the town’s mayor said.

Eight other people, all civilians, were wounded in the midday blast at a branch of the state-owned Al-Rafidain bank in Haditha, 210 kilometers northeast of Baghdad, Mayor Bassim Naji said.
"Nine people have been killed in the suicide attack at Al-Rafidain bank," Naji told reporters.

The blast in Haditha was the first major attack in the town since October 5, 2009, when a suicide bomber killed five people at a funeral. And on August 2 of that year, a car bomb in the town killed four women and three children.