4 killed, 2 injured in Iraq's Anbar province

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RAMADI, Iraq, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- Four people were killed and two others wounded in separate gunfire and bomb attack in Iraq's western province of Anbar, a provincial police source said on Monday.

Gunmen using assault rifles stormed the house of Sheikh Ketab al-Issawi, chieftain of a local tribe in southern city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, and dragged him out of his house before they shot him dead, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The attackers also wounded Issawi's son during their breaking into the house, the source said.

In a separate incident, a sticky bomb attached to a car carrying three police officers detonated late on Sunday night in central of the provincial capital city of Ramadi, some 110 km west of Baghdad, killing two officers and wounding the third, the source said.

Also in the province, the body of Osama Abdul-Razzaq al-Kubaisy, a judge of the local criminal court in the city of al-Qaim, was found inside his house in the western outskirts of the city, some 230 km west of Ramadi, the source added.

Kubaisy's body was badly charred after being repeatedly stabbed with sharp object, he said, adding that the victim's family was not at the house when the attack occurred late on Sunday.

Insurgent attacks continue in the once volatile Sunni Arab area west of Baghdad that stretches through the province to Iraq's western borders with Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.

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