By Xinhua
Fallujah (Iraq) : A police personnel was kidnapped and 10 others were injured when gunmen attacked a checkpoint near the Fallujah city, 50 km west of Baghdad early Friday, an official said.
“Dozens of gunmen stormed a checkpoint outside the town of Saglawiyah, five km northeast of Fallujah, and clashed with policemen manning the post,” the official told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The attackers, believed to be affiliated with the Al Qaeda terror network, kidnapped a policeman and wounded 10, before fleeing from the scene, the official said.
Fallujah, the capital of Anbar province, has been relatively calm after local people (mainly Sunnis) joined hands with the US and Iraqi security forces to fight against members of the Al Qaeda.
Rifts emerged between Sunni insurgent groups and the Al Qaeda in Iraq after the latter adopted a hardline Islamic view and exercised indiscriminate killings against both Shia and Sunni Muslim communities.