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Professor, police officer shot dead in Iraq

27 May 2010 19:10 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. A professor and a police officer were shot dead by gunmen in Baghdad and Mosul, capital of Iraq’s northern Nineveh province, on Thursday, police said, APA reports Xinhua News Agency.
Abdul Kareem Eshniyin Mohammed, a professor at Shariaa College, was killed when a student entered his office in the college in Bab al-Muadham area in central Baghdad and opened fire at him with a pistol equipped with silencer, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The source did not give further details about the possible motive behind the death of the Sunni professor, but he said the incident is under investigation.
In northern Iraq, unknown gunmen shot dead Captain Khattab Awni, a police officer in Mosul’s inspector general office, while he was heading home after he finished work, a local police source told Xinhua.
The attack took place in the al-Rifaie neighborhood in western Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, the source said.
Waves of violence and sporadic attacks continue in the Iraqi cities more than two months after the country held its landmark parliamentary election which is widely expected to shape the political landscape of the war-torn country.