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KIRKUK, Iraq, June 25 (AFP) - 9h04 - An Iraqi
Kurdish contractor was shot dead and another wounded
in a drive-by shooting south of this volatile city
in northern Iraq, a police officer said Saturday.
Asu Ahmed died late Friday and Khalil Mohammed was
seriously wounded after gunmen sprayed their car
with automatic weapons fire in the village of Al-Salsah,
Colonel Mohammed Khaled said.
The men worked for a US company installing concrete
blast walls.
The oil hub of Kirkuk is disputed by Iraqi Kurds,
who want it to be the capital of their three
autonomous provinces. Sunni Arabs and Turkmen, who
were installed during the regime of Saddam Hussein,
say they are under pressure to leave.
In other violence, a firefight between police
commandos and an unknown number of attackers in
western Baghdad left two policemen dead and three
wounded early Saturday, a defense ministry source
said.
In the capital's northeast Shiite district of Sadr
City, a local municipal council member was kidnapped
from his home late Friday, the source added, without
being able to identify the victim.
AFP
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