6 dead in car accident in Iraq

BAGHDAD, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Six people were killed on Friday in a car accident when a sedan collided with a fuel tanker on a road northwest of Baghdad, a traffic police official said.

Provincial traffic police officer Mahmoud al-Bakri told Xinhua that the incident occurred when a sedan car carrying five people collided with a tanker on a desert road between the provinces of Salahudin and Anbar, causing a fire.<