ISIL group infiltrated a town in Iraq’s Anbar province with several fighters wearing suicide belts Saturday, in a raid that killed at least five people, security officials said.

ISIL  group infiltrated a town in Iraq's Anbar province with several fighters wearing suicide belts Saturday, in a raid that killed at least five people, security officials said.

The "jihadist" attackers entered Amriyat al-Fallujah, a government-held town 50 kilometers (30 miles) southwest of Baghdad and a key base for any operation against the ISIL-controlled city of Fallujah, further north.

"Eight suicide bombers snuck into the city, the security forces succeeded to repel the attack by killing five of them," Major General Ismail al-Mahalawi, who heads Anbar Operations Command, told AFP.

"The other three blew themselves up, which led to the killing of three civilians and two policemen," he said.