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Joint forces foil suicide attack on security gathering east of Ramadi

 Joint forces foil suicide attack on security gathering east of Ramadi

Iraqi army forces. File photo.

Archival photo.
Archival photo.

(IraqiNews.com) The commander of the first regiment of the 30th brigade of al-Hashed al-Sha’bi, col. Juma Fazah al-Jumaili, announced on Sunday, that the forces of al-Hashed al-Sha’bi had managed to foil a suicide attack by a booby-trapped tank on a gathering for the security forces east of Ramadi.

Jumaili stated in an interview for IraqiNews.com, “The suicide bomber, who was driving a booby-trapped tank attempted to target the security forces and al-Hashed forces in al-Subihat area in al-Karma City (53 km east of Ramadi), pushing al-Hashed forces in one of the ambushes to blow him up by a missile.”

Jumaili added, “The explosion of the tank was within 100 meters from the security forces.”

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