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4 sahwa fighters killed, wounded near Kirkuk

February 27, 2009 - 07:08:05

KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Two sahwa (Awakening) tribal fighters were killed and two others wounded by unidentified gunmen fire in al-Huweija district on Friday, a senior security source said.

“Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a checkpoint of the sahwa forces in al-Askari neighborhood, al-Huweija district, (65 km) southwest of Kirkuk, leaving two fighters killed and two others wounded,” Brig. Sarhad Qader, the Kirkuk Districts’ Police Department chief, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The gunmen managed to escape to an unknown place,” the source added.

Kirkuk is 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

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