BAGHDAD: Two days of bombings, attacks on police and a botched hostage rescue killed 50 people in Iraq, among them 24 police who died as security sharply deteriorates in Anbar province, officials said on Monday.

Anbar, to the west of Baghdad, is home to two of the main centres of Sunni anti-government protests that broke out almost five months ago, and has since seen a number of attacks on security forces.

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