It was the second suicide attempt targeting Governor Qassim Mohammed Abid.

An Iraqi governor survived a suicide attack that targeted his convoy and wounded three bodyguards and six policemen, officials said.

"A suicide car bomb in the centre of Ramadi targeted a convoy carrying the governor this morning," Abid's media advisor Mohammed Fathi told AFP, adding that the governor was unhurt.
Three of Abid's bodyguards and six other policemen were wounded in the 8:30am (0530 GMT) attack, a police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

It was the second suicide attempt targeting Governor Qassim Mohammed Abid, who was elected to office in January 2009. In December 2009 Abid lost his left hand in a suicide attack in Anbar's provincial capital Ramadi.

In the attack on December 30, 2009, 23 people were killed and 30 wounded including Abid. The governor and his offices have been frequent targets of insurgents in recent months. The headquarters were hit three times in 2010.