A suspected Al-Qaeda hideout has been uncovered on an island on the Tigris river in central Iraq, by a group of Sunnis fighting the armed Islamists, their leader said on Saturday. The hideout, from where Al-Qaeda's operations in the provinces of Salaheddin, Anbar and Diyala are believed to have been coordinated, was found on an island in the Tigris near the city of Samarra, 125 kilometres (80 miles) north of Baghdad.
Majin Younis Hassan, leader of the local anti-Qaeda group, conveyed the hideout was discovered early on Saturday following an "intelligence tip". "We found 1,500 heavy, medium and light weapons as well as several bombs," Hassan told AFP. He said the underground hideout had four big rooms, each with eight beds.
Meanwhile, Iraqi police said at least four people have been killed and 15 injured when a bomb exploded on a minibus in Baghdad. A police officer stated Saturday's blast occurred during morning rush hour in an eastern section of the capital. The officer disclosed those killed and wounded were passengers on the bus.
