Two blasts kill at least 13 people in west Iraq

FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Two suicide truck bombs outside police stations killed at least 13 people, wounded 122 others and levelled six houses in western Iraq Thursday, police said.

Police Captain Hammad al-Mohammedi told Reuters security forces had sealed off the city to traffic in response to the bombs, which exploded simultaneously outside the two stations in different parts of the city of Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad.

Six policemen were amongst the dead, he said.

Violence has dropped sharply in Iraq over the past year, but car bombs, roadside bombs and other attacks strike Iraq on a daily basis. Falluja was once heart of a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite-led government and U.S. forces.

Sunni Islamist Al Qaeda and other militants have since been largely overcome, but some still operate there.

(Reporting by Ali Mashhadani; Writing by Tim Cocks)