| (VOI)- At least 14 people, including four policemen, were killed, and 10 others were wounded in a suicide attack targeting a police checkpoint in Hit city, western Iraq, a police source said on Sunday. “A suicide attacker detonated explosives strapped to his body near a checkpoint manned by policemen in central Hit, late on Saturday, killing 14 people and wounding ten more,” the source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq- Voices of Iraq- (VOI). The source added that four policemen, including a senior officer, were among the dead. Hit, a city within Anbar province, is located 180 km west of Baghdad. Meanwhile, a spokesman for the U.S. forces in Anbar told VOI that U.S. reinforcements were sent to Hit after the attack. |