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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest Monday near a line of Iraqis waiting for propane gas cylinders in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar, killing 20 people and wounding at least 17 others, police said.
The attack happened around 6:15 p.m. local time in Tal Afar, which is about 45 miles (72 kilometers) west of Mosul.
Hours earlier, a suicide car bomber attacked a police station in Ramadi -- west of Baghdad -- killing two police officers and wounding 26 Iraqi security forces, an Iraqi interior ministry spokesman said.
The car bombing was followed minutes later by a second suicide car bomber, but that attacker did not cause any casualties at the al-Hurriya police station, the spokesman said.
Sunday, four car bomb attacks in less than three hours in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk left at least 23 people dead and 66 wounded, police told CNN.
The victims were police and civilians, officials said.
The first attack, carried out by a suicide car bomber, took place at 10 a.m. near the criminal investigation division of Kirkuk's police building, police said.
Ten minutes later, a suicide car bomber detonated outside a building housing an organization for children, and 20 minutes after that, a parked car bomb exploded outside a mosque, police said.
The fourth car bomb exploded at 12:30 p.m. on a street in the center of Kirkuk, which is 235 miles (380 kilometers) north of Baghdad.
Farther south in Baquba, a roadside bomb struck an Iraqi police patrol around 12:30 p.m., killing two Iraqi police officers and wounding three others, police told CNN.
Last week, more than 150 bodies were found dumped across Baghdad in killings authorities believe resulted from Sunni-Shiite sectarian hostilities.
Other developments
# Tribes in one of Iraq's most volatile provinces have joined to fight the insurgency in their region, calling on the government and the U.S.-led military coalition to give them weapons, a prominent tribal leader told The Associated Press. Tribal leaders and clerics in Ramadi, the capital of violent Anbar province, met last week and have set up a force of about 20,000 men "ready to purge the city of these infidels," Sheik Fassal al-Guood, a tribal leader from Ramadi, told AP.
# The government prepared to announce new security measures for Baghdad before the beginning of Ramadan, expected on September 24, AP reported. Mohammed al-Askari, a Defense Ministry spokesman, told AP that the measures would be adopted two or three days before the holy month begins to "protect citizens from terrorists attacks during this month."
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