TIKRIT, Iraq, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- At least three soldiers were killed by gunmen near the city of Samarra in Salahudin province which lies to the north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Sunday, a provincial police source told Xinhua.
The attack occurred in the morning when gunmen opened fire and threw hand grenades at an Iraqi army checkpoint on a highway near Samarra, some 110 km north of Baghdad, a source from the provincial police command said on condition of anonymity.
Salahudin is a Sunni-dominated province. Its capital city of Tikrit, some 170 km north of Baghdad, is the hometown of the former President Saddam Hussein.
Violence in Iraq has decreased from its climax in 2006 and 2007, when sectarian conflicts pushed the country to the brink of a civil war, but tensions and sporadic shootings and bombings are still common across the country.
from XINHUA
| 2013-01-13 21:02:19 |
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