Sepcial Report:Tension accelerates in Iraq

    BAGHDAD, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Unknown gunmen stormed an Iraqi army checkpoint near Baquba on Monday, killing six Iraqi soldiers and wounding 15 others, a source from the U.S. and Iraqi liaison office told Xinhua.

    "Unidentified armed men attacked a checkpoint manned by Iraqi army soldiers outside Baquba early in the morning, leaving six soldiers killed and 15 others wounded," said the source from the Joint Coordination Center of Diyala, where Baquba located.

    He said the Iraqi soldiers seized a large quantity of weapons after they fiercely fought the attackers, who sustained casualties, before they fled the scene.

    Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, is the provincial capital of Iraq's Diyala province which is within Iraq's so-called Sunni Triangle, an insurgent stronghold. Enditem