'Nine dead' in Iraq market blast

A car bomb in a market near the Iraqi city of Falluja has killed at least nine people and wounded dozens more.

Local police said the explosion came at sunset when a parked car rigged with explosives went off in Amiriya, destroying several cars.

Falluja was once an insurgent stronghold in the volatile Anbar province, west of Baghdad.

The province has been relatively stable since Sunni fighters turned against al-Qaeda and joined forces with the US.

But recent weeks have seen a series of attacks on police and Iraqi army checkpoints in Anbar.

And on Monday, a suicide bomber walked into a funeral tent in the town of Haditha and blew himself up, killing at least six mourners.

At least five of the dead in the latest blast were police officers, Sharqiya al-Isawi, leader of Amiriya town council, said.