| (KUNA) -- A senior Iraqi police officer who was seriously wounded in armed clashes with a local armed group last week passed away. A senior police officer based in the southern city of Al-Nasiriah, where the clashes took place, told KUNA on Sunday that Brigadier Abdel Amir Jabbar succumbed to his critical cuts last night. The officer, who was shot with sniper fire, underwent treatment at a makeshift hospital of the American Army. Scores of people including five security personnel were killed in the clashes that pitted the government regulars against a radical group, called "Jund Al-Samaa," (Arabic for soldiers of the heavens). |