RAMADI, Iraq -- Twin suicide bombs killed at least 27 and wounded more than 100 in Iraq's Sunni Arab heartland yesterday.

Qassim Mohammed, governor of Anbar province, was wounded in the attacks outside the provincial government headquarters in Ramadi, Anbar's capital.

Hospital and police sources said Sadoon Khraibit, a member of Anbar's governing council, was wounded in the attacks.

Police Colonel Jabbar Ajaj said a suicide bomber detonated explosives in a vehicle in the initial blast, followed shortly by a second suicide attack by a bomber on foot.

Mohammed was at the site of the blast inspecting the damage, a source at the Ramadi hospital reported, when the second attacker struck. State television Iraqiya said one of the bombers was a man working as a bodyguard for the governor.

Many of the 105 people wounded were police.