SALAHALDIN/ Aswat al-Iraq: Pro-government Sahwa (Awakening) forces announced that three of its members were killed in Samarra'.

The bodies of the deceased could not be removed because the site was implanted with explosives, as reported by Sheikh Mohammed al-Falah, Commander of Sahwa in East of the city, to Aswat al-Iraq.

He added that unknown gunmen committed the crime, 20 km east of Samarra'.

No other details were given.

Samarra' lies 120 km north of the capital, Baghdad.