SULAIMANIYAH, (Iraq), July 15 (AFP): Five Iraqi border guards were killed Sunday when gunmen ambushed their patrol on the Iranian frontier near Penjwin, in the autonomous Kurdish north, a security official said.
"At 9.00 am (0500 GMT) one of our patrols came under attack from unidentified gunmen," said Brigadier General Ahmed Deskara, a senior border guard commander stationed in the nearby city of Sulaimaniyah.
One of the five people killed was an officer, and another four guards were wounded in the attack, he added.
Border guards have come under attack in the past from an extreme Islamist group which calls itself Al-Qaeda in Kurdistan - - formerly Ansar al-Islam-which operates along the porous borders between Iran and Iraq.
Meanwhile, three policemen including an officer were killed and two others wounded during clashes with armed men west of the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, according to local police.
And in the village of Aziziyah south of Baghdad gunmen burst into the home of a local city councillor, Hassim Jassim, and killed his wife and son, according to Police Lieutenant Ali Kadhim.
Jassim was not in the house at the time of the attack, he added.
Five border guards killed in northern Iraq ambush
FE Team | Published: July 16, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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