3 policemen wounded in blast near Falluja

ANBAR / IraqiNews.com: Three policemen were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off east of Falluja city on Saturday, a police source in Anbar province said. “A roadside IED went off near a police patrol in al-Haswa district, (20 km) east of Falluja, today, leaving three patrolmen injured and causing severe damage to the patrol vehicle,” the source told IraqiNews.com. “The wounded security men were rushed to the Falluja Public Hospital for treatment,” he added. Falluja, 45 km west of Baghdad, is the largest city of the predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar. The province’s capital is Ramadi, 110 km west of Baghdad. AmR (P) 1