Four shot dead in Iraq Mon Jul 31, 5:35 AM ET
At least four Iraqis were shot dead and a car bomb exploded in Baghdad as insurgents and rival sectarian death squads pursued their campaigns to destabilise the strife-torn country.
Unidentified gunmen killed Brigadier Fakhri Jamil of the Iraqi government intelligence service as he drove his private car in the Yarmuk area of western Baghdad, a defence official told AFP Monday.
Assassins also gunned down Bassim Abdulhamid, an employee of the Sunni endowment, which manages the Sunni mosques, in a drive-by shooting as he left his house in Amara in mainly Shiite southern Iraq, a police officer said.
Meanwhile, two workmen were shot dead and two more injured in another shooting in the city, said medics at the Al-Kindi hospital.
A car bomb detonated in the Waziriyah area of western Baghdad as a police patrol passed by, wounding a policeman and a civilian bystander, an interior ministry official said.
Two corpses were found in the Hurriyah neighbourhood of the capital; one an employee of the oil ministry, the other a guard at a local school. They had been shot dead, the interior ministry official said.
The corpse of an unidentified gunshot victim was also found in the village of Husseiniya, on the northern outskirts of the capital, according to the same ministry.
A second bullet-scarred corpse, that of an old man, was found in a river in Suwira, 60 kilometres (37 miles) southeast of Baghdad, according to a security source in the city of Kut. |
