Topic: Sunni insurgents clash with police, Shiite militia near Bagh

BAGHDAD, Oct. 27 (Xinhua) -- Sunni insurgents clashed with Iraqi police
and Shiite militia near Baghdad on Thursday and at least 19 people were
killed, an Interior Ministry source said.
"The clash erupted between Sunni militants and a joint force of police
and the Mehdi Army who headed to Nehrawan area east of Baghdad to save a
kidnapped member of the Mehdi Army," the source told Xinhua on condition of
anonymity.
The Mehdi Army are militia loyal to the radical Iraqi Shiite cleric
Moqtada al-Sadr.
Two policemen and 17 Mehdi fighters were killed and five other policemen
and 12 Mehdi fighters wounded, the source added.
The casualties among the insurgents were not immediately known. Enditem