Armed man killed while planting explosive charge in Wassit Province

WASSIT / IraqiNews.com: An armed man has been killed while trying to plant an explosive charge, targeted against the Deputy Chairman of the Support Council of Suweira township of southern Iraq ’s Wassit Province , a Wassit security source said on Thursday.   “An explosive charge blew off on Thursday against an armed man, who tried to plant it in front of the house of the Deputy Chairman of the Support Council of Sewiera, Adnan al-Juheishy, 135 km to the north of Kut, killing the armed man on the spot,” the security source told IraqiNews.com news agency.   The security source said that the preliminary investigations have uncovered that the armed man was member of al-Qaeda organization.   Kut, the center of Wassit Province , is 180 km to the northeast of Baghdad .   SKH (ST)