Police chief of a town in the volatile Diyala province in central Iraq survived a roadside bomb targeting his convoy on Thursday, which left five bodyguards dead and wounded another, a provincial police source said.
Colonel Faris al-Ameri, police chief of Badruz town, was slightly wounded by the blast, which also damaged two police vehicles, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Baldruz, some 70 km northeast of Baghdad, is a part of the restive province of Diyala. The province has become a hotbed of insurgency and sectarian violence since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Source: Xinhua
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