Dozens of people were killed and others injured in a suicide bomb attack that rocked Iraq’s western city of Fallujah on Saturday, police sources said.
The bomb blast hit Iraqi check point at the entrance way to al Falluja where Iraqi security forces responded with heavy live ammunition. Number of casualties remains disclosed.
The bombing was followed by a large-scale arrest and crackdown carried out by Iraqi security forces in the surrounding area.
The Iraqi forces also defused two other improvised explosive devices found in a market west of Fallujah.
The violence is part of ongoing clashes between ISIL and government forces, who have been cutting the supply lines of the armed group, isolating the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah.
"Iraq's security forces are taking towns and villages surrounding those cities and use them as staging posts to go into Ramadi and Fallujah," police sources said.