8 Iraqi soldiers killed, wounded in armed attack on checkpoint west of Baghdad
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(IraqiNews.com) Baghdad- A source in the Iraqi Minidtry of Interior announced on Sunday, that eight soldiers had been either killed or wounded in an armed attack on a checkpoint of the Iraqi army west of Baghdad.
The source said in a statement received by IraqiNews.com,” Unidentified gunmen opened fire, this morning, at a checkpoint belonging to the Iraqi army in Zaidan village in Abu Ghraib District west of Baghdad, killing two of its members and wounding six others.”
The source, who asked anonymity, added, “A security force rushed to the area and transferred the wounded to a nearby hospital to receive treatment and the dead bodies to the forensic medicine department, while a raid and search operation was carried out to find the attackers.”