Tribal chief killed, 2 wounded in Falluja blast
ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq: A tribal chief was killed and two others wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) blast targeted a funerary procession of local resident in eastern al-Falluja on Saturday, a security source said.
An IED went off on Saturday evening near a funerary procession of a local resident of Falluja, leaving Hamid al-Halbousi, the chief of al-Halabsa clan in al-Anbar province, and two others tribal chiefs wounded, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
One of the two wounded chiefs is a member of the local council of al-Falluja district, he added, not giving further details.
Falluja, the largest city in the predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar, lies 45 km west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
Posted by: Steve White 2011-02-06 |