(KUNA) -- A senior Iraqi intelligence officer was assassinated in western Baghdad, Iraqi Police reported Monday. A police source in press remarks said unknown militants shot Brigadier Fakhri Salman dead near his home in Yarmouk area, western Baghdad. According to the source, the brigadier, a senior officer in the Iraqi national intelligence, came under a shower of bullets and was dead before arrival to Yarmouk Hospital.Another official was also assassinated in the same area by unknown gunmen as Police reports the Iraqi Health Minister's advisor Mued Jihad was shot dead. In a separate incident, a car bomb today left one police officer and another civilian injured in Cairo neighborhood, northern Baghdad. The blast also left material damage.