Gunmen assassinated early on Wednesday a chief of criminal intelligence in the town of Baacouba northeast of the capital, a source of the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. The source told KUNA the gunmen gunned down Kenaan Hassan and two bodyguards while the trio were heading to the work office in the town.Separately, gunmen killed a leading member of Al-Badr militia of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Ibrahim Al-Khazraji, in Al-Dujail province, 70 kilometers north of the Iraqi capital late on Tuesday, the source said. In the Baghdad district of Al-A'thamiah, armed elements gunned down justice Muhaimen Mahmoud on Tuesday.
Also on the security front, fire gutted a crude pipeline in the region of Al-Jarf in Al-Musayeb province, 70 km south of the capital, after it was blown up with explosives.