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| Iraqi colonel killed in drive-by shooting |
| 2011-02-05 |
| [Iran Press TV] A high-ranking Iraqi army officer and two of his sons have been killed in a drive-by shooting north of the capital Storied Baghdad, police say. Colonel Abbass Nuri, the chief of an anti-terrorism squad, was shot and killed in central Tuz Khormato, in Kirkuk Province, late Thursday after unknown gunnies opened fire on his car. Nuri's sons who were killed were aged 15 and 16. Two of Nuri's sons and his father were also maimed in the attack. Recent terrorist attacks in Iraq have mainly targeted the majority Shia community and security forces. According to Iraqi police, at least 22 people were killed and 44 others were maimed across the country on Thursday. In Thursday's worst attack, a parked car laden with explosives exploded at around 7:15 pm (1615 GMT) in the center of Ramadi, in central Iraq, drawing a crown, a police officer said. He added that shortly afterwards, a bomber blew up explosives strapped to his body among the crowd, killing at least eight people and wounding 15 others. The blast set many cars ablaze and damaged nearby houses. Last week, following a deadly car boom kaboom at a funeral wake in Storied Baghdad's Shia district of Shula, which killed at least 35 people and maimed dozens of others, young Iraqi men furious over the government's failure to prevent the bombings, pelted security forces at the scene with stones. Iraqi troops finally fired shots into the air to disperse a crowd of residents gathered for a demonstration against lack of security. |
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