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Iraqi official killed in Baghdad shooting
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-05-18 18:26 BAGHDAD, Iraq - Drive-by
shooters killed a senior member of Iraq's Interior Ministry Wednesday,
continuing a campaign against the new government's administration and security
infrastructure.
Brig. Gen. Ibrahim Khamas was shot and killed in his car by four gunmen
driving in a four-door sedan as he drove through Baghdad's southeastern
Zaafaraniyah district, police Col. Nouri Abdullah said. Khamas' wife and driver
were injured in the attack, he added.
Mortar attacks by insurgents in northern Mosul on Wednesday killed two Iraqis
and injured eight others, including seven school children, police and hospital
officials said.
A car bomb detonated in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, injuring 14
people — including 12 police officers. The car, parked in central Baqouba, blew
up as a three-car police convoy drove by, damaging all the vehicles, police Col.
Mudhafar Muhammed said.
In Baghdad, a roadside bomb targeting an American military convoy driving
through the eastern part of the city injured seven Iraqis, police Lt. Col. Ahmed
Aboud Efait said. There were no reports of any Americans injured, he added.
Gunmen also shot dead a transport ministry driver, Ali Mutib Sakr, in Sadr
City, a predominantly Shiite area in the eastern part of the capital, police Lt.
Col Shakir Wadi said.
All of the Mosul attacks took place in the eastern part of the city, a
predominantly Sunni Arab district, and four of the rounds hit its police academy
but caused no injuries, police Brig. Gen. Wathiq Mohammed said.
One round landed in front of a grocer's shop in the al-Masarif neighborhood
and killed the owner, said Dr. Bahaa-Eddine al-Bakri of the Jamhouri Teaching
Hospital.
Another struck a car and killed its driver and injured a passenger, al-Bakri
said, while seven children walking to school in the al-Jamaa neighborhood were
injured by another.
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