A bodyguard working for one of the main parties in Iraq's Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc, which has clashed politically with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki... Prime Minister of Iraq and the secretary-general of the Islamic Dawa Party....
, was killed on Wednesday, officials said.
Latif Ramadan Jassim was on duty near the headquarters of the Wifaq (Accord) party in Zeitun, west Storied Baghdad
...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate...
, when he was stabbed to death on Wednesday morning, party spokeswoman and MP Intisar Allawi told AFP.
"The police are now conducting an investigation," she said.
An Interior Ministry official confirmed a Wifaq guard was killed in Storied Baghdad on Wednesday.
It was not immediately clear why Jassim was attacked.
Wifaq is one of the main parties in the broader Iraqiya coalition, which won the most seats in March 2010 parliamentary elections but was outmaneuvered for the premiership by Maliki's State of Law alliance.
Iraqiya began a boycott of parliament and then the cabinet in December, accusing Maliki of concentrating power in his hands, though the boycotts were lifted in January and February, respectively.
Also on Wednesday, retired army pilot Colonel Majid Abdul Mawjood was rubbed out in the main northern city of djinn-infested Mosul, police First Lieutenant Mohammed Waggaa said.
And roadside kabooms in restive Diyala province, north of Storied Baghdad, left five civilians maimed, said police Major Ahmed al-Karkhi.
On Tuesday evening, an Iraqi journalist working for the Al-Rasheed satellite TV channel was maimed when two magnetic "sticky bombs" attached to his car detonated in south Storied Baghdad.
Majid Hamid, 32, had been visiting his cousin's home in Saidiyah, and upon leaving, the bombs went off, according to Ahmed Mullah Tallal, an anchor on Al-Rasheed.
Violence nationwide is markedly lower than in 2006 and 2007 but attacks are still common, especially in Storied Baghdad, djinn-infested Mosul and Diyala. A total of 126 Iraqis were killed in violence in April, according to official figures.