At least 17 people have died after a car bomb exploded outside government offices in a province west of Baghdad. It was the latest deadly hit on a favorite insurgent target.
More than 23 people were also wounded in the blast which happened near the provincial council compound in Ramadi, capital of Anbar province.
Police found a second bomb in a nearby parking lot a few minutes later, but said they detonated it in a safe area.
The compound in Ramadi, 115km west of Baghdad, also houses the Anbar police headquarters and the governor's office.
Government officials in Anbar, a former stronghold of al-Qaeda militants and Sunni insurgents, have frequently been targeted.
Nearly a year ago, the Islamic state of Iraq, an al-Qaeda front group, claimed responsibility for an attack on the same compound. That attack caused Anbar governor Qasim al-Fahadawi to lose an arm and undergo leg surgery in the United States.