Sahwa fighter killed by IED in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: One Sahwa fighter was killed on Thursday by an improvised explosive device blast in the southwest of Kirkuk, a local police chief said. “The bomb exploded early Thursday (May 20) targeting a vehicle in Abi al-Khanazeer village in al-Rashad district, southwest of Kirkuk, killing the driver, a Sahwa fighter,” Brig. Sarhad Qader told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The explosion destroyed the vehicle completely,” he added. Kirkuk is 250 km northeast of Baghdad. SH (P)/SR 3