Friday, September 20, 2024

Baghdad

6 cops killed, wounded in 2nd Falluja blast

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: Two policemen were killed and four others were wounded when a car bomb went off in northern Falluja, the second blast to hit the city today. “An explosives-rigged car detonated while a police patrol vehicle was passing near al-Falluja Bridge in the north of the city, killing two patrolmen and wounding four others,” Falluja’s police chief, Mahmoud Fayyad al-Issawi, told IraqiNews.com. Earlier today, an explosives-rigged car driven by a suicide bomber detonated near a police patrol vehicle at the eastern entrance of the city, killing a patrolman and wounding six others, according to a security source. Falluja, Anbar’s largest city, lies 45 km west of the capital Baghdad. SS (P) 1