Three gunmen affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and three Palestinian National Authority (PNA) policemen were killed in a shootout in the West Bank city of Kalkilya early Sunday morning, witness said.

Witness said the PNA policemen surrounded a house dominated by Hamas gunmen early Sunday morning, then exchange of fire ensued afterwards. The fighting lasted for hours, before the PNA policemen finally took control of the house.

(Xinhua News Agency May 31, 2009)