(Xinhua) -- At least six people were killed and 15 others maimed in a suicide kaboom at a gathering in the city if Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province on Thursday, a provincial police source said.A jacket wallah blew up his explosive vest shortly before the sunset during a ceremony at the cultural center in central Ramadi, 110 km west of Storied Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The ceremony was attended by Hikmat Jasim Zaidan, deputy governor of Anbar province, who was among the maimed, the source said.
One of Zaidan's guards was also among the killed by the blast, the source added.
Insurgent attacks continue in the once volatile Sunni Arab area in west of Storied Baghdad that stretches through Anbar province to Iraq's western borders with Syria, Jordan and Soddy Arabia.
The province cities and its vast desert area has been relatively calm for more than three years after Sunni tribes and anti-U.S. bad turban groups turned to cooperate with the U.S. troops and the Iraqi security forces against al-Qaeda network in Iraq.