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BAGHDAD, Oct 15 (KUNA) -- Six tribesmen were killed and eight others
injured in a suicide bombing in north Baghdad, the Iraqi police said here
Monday.
The bombing explosion took place at a checkpoint near a fuel station at
Balad, 80 kilometers north of Baghdad, an Iraqi police source told Kuwait News
Agency (KUNA) by phone.
The suicide bomber exploded the car as soon as he approached the
checkpoint, which belonged to a local council formed of chief tribesmen to
work with Iraqi security forces to fight Al-Qaeda militants in Salaheddin
Province, the source added.
Earlier last month, Sheikh Muawia Abdullah al-Jabarah, chief of the
council, was killed in a bomb explosion targeting his convoy at Balad in
Salaheddin Province.
Al-Jabarah, together with several other chief tribesmen, set up so-called
supporting and awakening councils with a view to helping Iraqi security forces
in the fight against Al-Qaeda network in the province.
These councils have been under terrorist attacks by Al-Qaeda for several
months due to their support to Iraqi and multinational forces. (end)
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