Sahwa fighter killed, 5 wounded in blast near Baaquba

DIALA / IraqiNews.com: A sahwa (awakening) tribal fighter was killed and five others, including three sahwa men, wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack west of Baaquba city on Friday, a local police source in Diala said. “An IED went off near a vehicle driven by a sahwa leader in a-Katoun neighborhood, (3 km) west of Baaquba, leaving him killed and five others wounded,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. The source did not give further details. Baaquba, the capital city of Diala, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad. Earlier on Friday, a source from Kirkuk’s Joint Coordination Center (JCC) said three sahwa fighters were killed and four others wounded by gunmen southwest of the city. AmR (P) 3