(KUNA) -- The Higher Education Ministry said on Thursday that unknown assailants opened fire and killed the dean of Business Administration at the university of Baghdad Dr. Jassem Mohammad Al-Thahabi. A statement issued by the ministry today condemned the criminal attack that took the lives of the dean, his wife, and son near the college of Business Administration in Al-Waziri area in Baghdad. The ministry called on security authorities to protect the scientific and academic institutions in the country and to scuttle nefarious schemes of terrorists who routinely target college instructors and professors.Unknown assailants also assassinated last Monday Dr. Issam Kathem Al-Rawi, President of the Iraqi teachers union in an attack outside of his house in western Baghdad.