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| Iraqi governor escapes attack, three killed in oil city |
| 2004-05-10 |
| Insurgents bombed the convoy of the governor of Iraq's Diyala province, killing two of his bodyguards and wounding three others, police said. "A homemade bomb exploded as the governor's convoy passed by," said police lieutenant Abdullah Hassan al-Jabburi, adding that the attack occurred a short distance outside the the provincial capital Baqubah. "The governor escaped unharmed, but two of his guards were killed and three others wounded in the attack, carried out at 9:30 am", the officer said in Baqubah. Meanwhile, a police officer died after being shot by gunmen on Sunday in Baqubah. In other violence assailants on Monday gunned down a New Zealander, a South African and an Iraqi working for a reconstruction firm in the northern Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk, police said. "A New Zealander, a South African and an Iraqi were shot dead at 7:30 am by several armed men in front of their home in Kirkuk," said police officer Hazem Mohammed Amin. The men, who worked for an Iraqi construction company, were ambushed by more than five armed men, Amin said. Police chief General Turhan Yussef said that the Iraqi driver and the South African were killed immediately while the New Zealander was declared dead on arrival at hospital. The city's deputy governor Ismail Hadidi said there was most probably a a "network planning assassinations of foreigners and local officials." The deaths were the latest of civilians working on the multi-billion dollar project led by the US-led coalition occupying Iraq to rebuild an infrastructure debilitated by decades of war and trade sanctions under jailed dictator Saddam Hussein. |
| Posted by:Fred |