Three bombs exploded in a residential area near Ramadi in Iraq"s western Anbar province on Thursday, killing seven people including relatives of an Iraqi Army anti-terrorist special forces commander, Reuters quoted police as saying. The bombs were planted overnight at the home of the officer, Waleed al-Hiti, and adjacent homes, police said. Hiti was seriously wounded and his father, mother, two sisters, brother and sister-in-law, as well as the lawyer, were killed, police said. The bombing occurred in the town of Hit, about 130 km (80 miles) west of Baghdad.
