Man, wife shot down in Kirkuk
March 18, 2009 - 06:43:36
KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: A group of gunmen on Wednesday broke into a house in Kirkuk city and killed a man and his wife before they fled to an unknown destination, according to a local police chief.
“Autopsy reports say that the dead were shot with a pistol,” Brig. Sarhad Qadir told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The incident occurred in Huzayran neighborhood in southwestern Kirkuk city, Qadir noted, adding that an investigation is currently underway.
Kirkuk, an oil-rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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