Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Mortar attack on PUK office in Mosul
Security, Politics
(VOI) Unidentified gunmen on Monday killed the director of the state-owned water supply company in Badoush, northwest Ninawa province, while a guard for the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Mosul, 402km north of Baghdad, was severely wounded during a mortar attack, a police source in Ninawa province said. "Unidentified gunmen, driving a modern car, opened fire against the director of the water supply company, Abdullah Mohammad Ahmed, while he was leaving his office in Badoush, killing him on the spot," the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI)."The attackers fled the scene to an unidentified place," he added."
The headquarters of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Mosul was hit by two mortar shells on Monday, leaving a guard severely wounded," an official source from the PUK in Mosul also said. PUK, one of two main Kurdish parties in Iraq, is led by the Iraqi President Jalal al-Talabani. The wounded man was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment. Mosul is the main city of the Sunni predominantly Ninawa province.
Labels: Badoush, Mosul, Ninewa Province, PUK
