Iraq: 10 people killed and 37 injured in wave of violence, hit also the government paramilitary group Sons of Iraq
Ten people were killed and 37 others wounded in separate incidents of bombings and shootings in central and eastern Iraq Wednesday, police said.
Three members of a government-backed paramilitary group, known as Awakening Council, were killed and 13 wounded in a car bomb explosion in the town of Garma near the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, a police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
One of those killed was the leader of a group whose members were gathering at a military base in the town when the blast occurred, the source said.
The Awakening Council group, also known as Sons of Iraq, consists of armed groups, including some powerful anti-US Sunni insurgent groups who turned their rifles against the al-Qaeda network after the latter resorted to indiscriminate killings against both Shiite and Sunni Muslim communities.