4 sahwa fighters killed, wounded near Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Two sahwa (Awakening) tribal fighters were killed and two others wounded by unidentified gunmen fire in al-Huweija district on Friday, a senior security source said. “Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a checkpoint of the sahwa forces in al-Askari neighborhood, al-Huweija district, (65 km) southwest of Kirkuk, leaving two fighters killed and two others wounded,” Brig. Sarhad Qader, the Kirkuk Districts’ Police Department chief, told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The gunmen managed to escape to an unknown place,” the source added. Kirkuk is 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 1