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Member of PUK assassinated in Mosul
2.2.2006
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ERBIL, Kurdistan-Iraq, Feb 1, - A member of the
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), led by Iraqi
President Jalal Talabani, was assassinated Wednesday
in the northern city of Mosul.
A PUK source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that
unknown gunmen opened fire on two PUK staff late
Tuesday, killing Ali Hassan Younis and wounding
Majid Nouri.
He added that the attack occurred while the victims
were entering their residence in Al-Jazaer
neighborhood, noting that the attackers fled the
scene.
Meanwhile, a source in Nineveh Police Command said
that policemen found two, unidentified, beheaded
human bodies in Adan neighborhood.
In a separate incident, an Iraqi citizen named
Ismael Yousif was killed by gunmen in an industrial
neighborhood.
Meanwhile, a security source in Tel Afer District
told reporters that 12 Iraqi soldiers were killed
and nine others were seriously wounded when four
mortar rounds hit a military camp inside a hospital.
The camp was established to provide security for the
medical facility.
In another incident, four Iraqi policemen were
wounded in southern Kurdish city of Kirkuk today
when an explosive device targeted a police patrol
securing oil facilities.
Chief of Police in Kirkuk Brigadier Sarhad Qader
told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the explosion
damaged two patrol vehicles.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi Police on Wednesday found the
body of a Kurdish merchant on the road between
Baghdad and Tikrit.
An Iraqi police source said that the merchant was
abducted by unknown gunmen and was executed and
dumped on the road nearby the town of Maryam Pak,
noting that his car, money, and personal belongings
were stolen.
The source added that the abductors left a letter in
the victims' pocket claiming that they are part of
Ansar Al-Sunnah group and that they would carry out
other attack on the same road.
www.kuna.net.kw
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