Five Iraqi police killed in bombing

23/12/2008| IslamWeb

Five Iraqi policemen were killed when their convoy was hit by roadside bomb in the town of Tarmiyah north of Baghdad on Tuesday, local police chief colonel Towfiq Ahmad al-Janabi said.

 The bomb targeted the convoy of Faisal Ismail, the police chief in the nearby town of Mashaada, Janabi told AFP.

 Iraq's security forces are a constant target for attack by fighters.

PHOTO CAPTION

File photo shows a US soldier taking a break under an Iraqi flag on the roof of the police station in the Iraqi town of Tarmiyah.

 

AFP