Gunmen killed the head of a Baghdad psychiatric hospital, while a separate suicide bombing killed two people and wounded 12, police said on Tuesday.Ibrahim Mohammed Ajil was heading home in the Baladiyat district of eastern Baghdad late on Monday when gunmen on two motorcycles shot him dead. Ajil was the head of the Al-Rashad hospital, IraqÂ’s largest secure mental institution, which lies on the outskirts of the sprawling Sadr City district of Baghdad. Insurgents and gangs have targeted many of IraqÂ’s leading medical specialists recently, prompting many to flee the country.
Car bombing: Separately, a suicide car bomb exploded near the homes of former interim premier Iyad Allawi, a secular Shia politician, as well as Saleh Al-Mutlaq, leader of the National Dialogue Front, a small Sunni Arab party. Most of the victims from the blast near the fortified “Green Zone” diplomatic and government compound were police and guards at a checkpoint. Mutlaq was in Jordan at the time of the blast, his wife told Reuters. It was not immediately clear if Allawi was at home. Other officials also live in the area.