Iraq attacks kill five policemen, town mayor
Friday, 13 January 2012
RAMADI, Jan 12 (AFP): Gun attacks in Baghdad and predominantly Sunni west Iraq Wednesday left five policemen and a town mayor dead, security and medical officials said.
The violence comes three weeks after US troops completed their withdrawal from Iraq, with the country locked in a political standoff that has raised sectarian tensions.
In Wednesday's deadliest attack, insurgents attacked a police station near the Syrian border early in the morning and killed three policemen, including a captain, according to police and a medic.
Police killed one of the gunmen who carried out the attack in the town of Al-Qaim, in mostly Sunni Anbar province west of Baghdad, and wounded another. "Three police-two policemen and a captain-were killed when several armed men attacked the police station," said police Captain Mohanned Mukhlif Hamadi.
The violence comes three weeks after US troops completed their withdrawal from Iraq, with the country locked in a political standoff that has raised sectarian tensions.
In Wednesday's deadliest attack, insurgents attacked a police station near the Syrian border early in the morning and killed three policemen, including a captain, according to police and a medic.
Police killed one of the gunmen who carried out the attack in the town of Al-Qaim, in mostly Sunni Anbar province west of Baghdad, and wounded another. "Three police-two policemen and a captain-were killed when several armed men attacked the police station," said police Captain Mohanned Mukhlif Hamadi.