Baghdad, December 07: At least six Iraqi policemen have lost their lives in the latest string of terrorist attacks targeting security forces across Iraq.
In the first development, two members of Iraqi police personnel were killed on Sunday after a blast from an improvised explosive device (IED) ripped through southern Kirkuk.
The explosion happened on al-Korneesh Street while an emergency police patrol vehicle was passing the location. The incident claimed the lives of two security agents and inflicted heavy damage to the vehicle they were aboard, according to Brig. Sarhad Qadir.
Security forces cordoned off the area after the attack and launched an investigation into the attack.
Four other policemen were killed when unidentified assailants opened fire at their checkpoint in Abu Ghraib, on the outskirts of the Iraqi capital, at about 7 a.m. Sunday. One policeman was then on duty while three others on a break, police officials said. The armed men fled the scene unscathed after the incident.
Last month, 13 villagers in the Abu Ghraib area were killed in an attack.
Witnesses said gunmen disguised in army uniforms abducted and killed the 13, whose bodies were later found with gunshot wounds to the head. They included a local leader of Iraq’s largest Sunni party, which once helped fight al-Qaeda.
Iraq has been witnessing violence-related incidents nearly on a daily basis since the US-led invasion of the oil-rich country in March 2003.
——Agencies