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Suicide attack kills one Peshmerga fighter, wounds 10
Oct 17, 2007, 8:49 GMT
Baghdad - At least one Peshmerga fighter was killed and 10 wounded in a suicide attack Wednesday near Jalawla town in Diyala province, independent media reports said.
A suicide bomber detonated a truck bomb close to a Peshmerga checkpoint near Jalawla, 180 kilometres north-east of Baghdad, Voices of Iraq news agency reported, citing a police source.
No further details were immediately available.
Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Kurdish Peshmerga fighters, Jabbar Yawer, said that a brigade of Peshmerga deployed in Tabaj near Jalawla to maintain order there.
'The Kurdish fighters' deployment was coordinated with the US forces in the area,' Yawer added.
Jalawla is a predominantly Kurdish town near Iraq's border with Iran.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-AgenturCOMMENT
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