The head of the Iraqi Kurdish Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) regional government, Barham Salih, escaped an assassination attempt outside his house in Sulaymaniyah on Tuesday. Two gunmen opened fire at Mr Salih while he was leaving his house in the afternoon. His bodyguards returned fire and the shootout resulted in the killing of the two gunmen and five of the bodyguards. In an interview after the incident, Mr Salih said that the assailants, who posed as taxi drivers of a red Volkswagen car were on "a suicide mission" and that their car was "full of bombs and grenades". He said that he was not accusing anybody "at this stage" but added: "We have obtained very useful leads about the identity of the assailants."
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