BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi officer and a policeman have been injured when a group of gunmen opened fire on them by pistols, fixed with silencers, in eastern Baghdad on Thursday, a security source reported.

“A group of armed men opened fire by pistols, fixed with silencers, on an officer with a major-rank and a policeman in east Baghdad’s Ur district on Thursday, wounding both men and escaping away,” the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

He said the officer and the policemen had been in an Interior Ministry car, when they were attacked by the gunmen.

SKH (PT)