A triple suicide bombing has killed 26 members of Kurdish security forces north east of Baghdad while a roadside bomb killed the police chief of the western Anbar province.

Criticism mounted today over a wall US troops are building around a Sunni enclave surrounded by Shiite areas in Baghdad, with residents calling it “collective punishment”.

A ROADSIDE bomb injured three American soldiers yesterday near Fallujah, a day after the grisly killing and mutilation of four US contract workers in the city.

The four westerners “slaughtered like sheep” in Iraq were private security guards hired by a US company that recruits former special forces soldiers, including ex-members of the SAS.