Team Infidel
Forum Spin Doctor
Media: AFP
Byline:
Date: 26 October 2006
BAQUBA, Iraq, Oct 26, 2006 (AFP) - Iraqi insurgents killed six police
Thursday, security and medical sources said, in the latest in a series of
deadly clashes between Sunni rebels and an embattled rapid reaction unit.
Officers from the specialised squad ran into gunfire during a raid against
insurgents just south of the city of Baquba, officials said. The six dead
police included a lieutenant. Nine more were wounded, medics said.
The Baquba region is in the grip of a vicious sectarian conflict between
extremist Sunni and Shiite factions, while the police are often targeted by
insurgents opposed to Iraq's US-backed government.
Last week, 17 trainee members of the rapid reaction unit were killed in an
ambush on a road near the city, triggering a security clampdown and a
string of bloody clashes.
Byline:
Date: 26 October 2006
BAQUBA, Iraq, Oct 26, 2006 (AFP) - Iraqi insurgents killed six police
Thursday, security and medical sources said, in the latest in a series of
deadly clashes between Sunni rebels and an embattled rapid reaction unit.
Officers from the specialised squad ran into gunfire during a raid against
insurgents just south of the city of Baquba, officials said. The six dead
police included a lieutenant. Nine more were wounded, medics said.
The Baquba region is in the grip of a vicious sectarian conflict between
extremist Sunni and Shiite factions, while the police are often targeted by
insurgents opposed to Iraq's US-backed government.
Last week, 17 trainee members of the rapid reaction unit were killed in an
ambush on a road near the city, triggering a security clampdown and a
string of bloody clashes.