Eight Iraqi police killed west of Baghdad
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-06-25 20:32

Gunmen attacked a police station near the city of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, on Saturday, killing eight police officers, a police chief said.

Around 20 insurgents attacked the police station on a highway outside Ramadi, which is the capital of Anbar province, Brigadier General Shakir Mohammed Salih, the chief of police in Anbar, said.

"Eight policemen were killed and one was wounded," he said.

Police and other members of Iraq's security forces are frequently targeted by insurgents, who regard them as collaborators with U.S. troops.

This week, a police station in central Baghdad was attacked before dawn by a group of insurgents that some said numbered more than 100. At least six Iraqi police and soldiers were killed and more than a dozen wounded in the fighting, which only subsided after U.S. troops and helicopters came in with support.