Gunmen killed sic people on Sunday and kidnapped five others in separate attacks in Iraq’s western province of Anbar.

Gunmen killed sic people on Sunday and kidnapped five others in separate attacks in Iraq's western province of Anbar.

Among those killed were three Syrian truck drivers, while three police were among those kidnapped.Armed men shot dead the Syrian truck drivers and set their vehicles on fire near the town of Al-Rutba, close to the Syrian border, a local administrative official and police said.

A civilian and a policeman were kidnapped from the site where the truck drivers came under attack, while armed men abducted two more police and a civilian from north of Al-Rutba.

It was unclear if the same group of gunmen carried out all the kidnappings.
In a separate incident, an army lieutenant colonel was shot dead in the city of Fallujah, while a sniper killed a soldier east of the city, officials said.

In another attack, armed men killed a cousin of Anbar provincial chief and wounded his wife in Fallujah.