Tribal chief killed, 2 wounded in Falluja blast

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: A tribal chief was killed and two others wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) blast targeted a funerary procession of local resident in eastern al-Falluja on Saturday, a security source said. “An IED went off on Saturday evening near a funerary procession of a local resident of Falluja, leaving Hamid al-Halbousi, the chief of al-Halabsa clan in al-Anbar province, and two others tribal chiefs wounded,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. One of the two wounded chiefs is a member of the local council of al-Falluja district, he added, not giving further details. Falluja, the largest city in the predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar, lies 45 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.  AmR (TP)/SR 1140