Three Sahwa members have been killed in an attack on a Sahwa checkpoint in al-Riyadh sub-district southwest of Kirkuk, the Iraqi police in Kirkuk province said Friday (December 27th).
"An armed group attacked Sahwa members manning a checkpoint in agricultural areas and killed three of them and wounded four others," Kirkuk police spokesman Col. Salam al-Jaf told Al-Shorfa.
One gunman was killed and another was wounded and arrested by the police after they arrived on the scene, al-Jaf said.