By Xinhua,
Baghdad : At least one Awakening Council member group was killed and three others were wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in western Baghdad on Saturday, an Interior Ministry source said.
The suicide bomber struck a checkpoint manned by local U.S. and Iraqi government-backed council members at about 1:00 p.m. (1000 GMT) in the Amal al-Shaabi Street in Amriyah neighborhood, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The source said that the toll could rise as the checkpoint was crowded with civilian cars to pass into the Sunni dominated neighborhood, the source said.
U.S. and Iraqi security forces sealed off the area to secure the scene, he said.
Amriyah is one of many of Baghdad neighborhoods which are surrounded by concrete walls. The security walls have effective role in cutting violence as the movement of insurgents was hampered, but critics argued that the walls divide communities and widen the sectarian rifts.
However, sporadic attacks continue in the Iraqi capital despite the relative lull of violence across the war-torn country, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials.