BAQUBA, June 27: Six National Guardsmen were killed on Sunday in an attack on a checkpoint northeast of the Iraqi capital by unknown gunmen armed with anti-tank rockets, a provincial police chief said.

"The attack was launched shortly after 5:00 pm (1300 GMT) by armed men on a National Guard checkpoint at Jalawla," some 180km from Baghdad, said General Walid Khaled Abdul Salam.-AFP