Six killed in Iraq’s twin blasts
October 3rd, 2011 - 7:16 am ICT by IANSBaghdad, Oct 3 (IANS) At least six people were killed in two back-to-back roadside bomb blasts near the Iraqi capital Baghdad late Sunday, Xinhua reported.
Two members of the Sunni paramilitary group “the Awakening Council” were killed when their car detonated a roadside bomb in Al-Nibaie area, some 50 km north of Baghdad.
A second roadside bomb exploded minutes later when another vehicle carrying militiamen rushed to the scene. It killed four other people, said a police official requesting anonymity.
The Awakening Council is a consortium of Sunni militia, who once worked with Al-Qaeda in the aftermath of 2003 Iraq war against American occupation. But they turned their rifles to Al-Qaeda after the latter exercised indiscriminate killing against both Shi’ite and Sunni neighbourhoods.
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