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Police
chief killed in Baghdad drive-by shooting
10/03/2005
Gunmen shot dead a police chief and two other people
in a Baghdad drive-by shooting today.
They opened fire on a pick-up truck carrying Colonel
Ahmed Abeis, the head of a police station in the
centre of the Iraqi capital, killing him, his driver
and a guard, police said.
The white truck could be seen on the side of a road,
its windows shattered and bullet-ridden.
Weeping, a brother of Abeis picked up an empty shoe
from the back of the blood-smeared vehicle.
It was not known who shot the men, but Iraqi police
and army troops, as well as top Iraqi politicians,
are frequently targeted by insurgents who see them
as collaborators with US forces.
In the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, gunmen
killed an accountant working for KurdSat, a TV
station belongs to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan,
one of two main Kurdish parties.
The shootings came a day after officials revealed
they had found 41 bodies at two sites in Iraq.
They said some of the badly decomposed corpses were
Iraqi soldiers who were kidnapped and executed by
insurgents. Others were civilians, including women
and children who may have been killed because their
families were seen as collaborators.
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