(KUNA) -- Member of the Riyadh Municipality Council Habis Naji Ali survived assassination by unknown gunmen on Sunday in southwestern Kirkuk. Iraqi police sources told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that Ali was shot in the head and was transported alive to a nearby hospital in Riyadh area for treatment.In a similar incident, an Iraqi civilian was shot dead by unknown gunmen in Askari neighborhood in Hwaijah district, west of Kirkuk Meanwhile, the Iraqi police found and dismantled nine mortar rounds, two rocket-propelled grenades, and two artillery shells in Daqoq district in Kirkuk.
An explosive device went off targeting an Iraqi Army patrol near the Agricultural Department in Hwaijah district, while another bomb targeted a military patrol on a road between Riyadh and Abbasi, but no damages or injuries were reported in the attacks. Two other explosive devices were also detonated targeting Multi-National Force units on a road between Kirkuk and Riyadh and on a road between Kirkuk and Baghdad, but no damages or injuries were reported in the attacks.