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Cop gunned down in Kirkuk

July 4, 2009 - 07:35:47

KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: One policeman has been killed by unknown gunmen in southern Kirkuk city, a local police official said on Saturday.

“Unidentified gunmen opened fire from a silencer-equipped pistol on an emergency policeman in southern Kirkuk, killing him on the spot,” Lt. Col. Kamel Ahmed told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
“The victim was wearing his police uniform and riding his motorbike back home,” the official explained.

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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