Iraqi general shot dead

2005-04-28 10:25

Baghdad - An Iraqi major-general was shot dead early on Thursday while on his way to work in Baghdad, an interior ministry official said.

The officer, Mohsen Abdel Sada, who worked as an intelligence aide to an interior deputy minister, was gunned down in his car by three men who drove by in another vehicle in the southern Dura district of the capital.

In a separate incident, police lieutenant-colonel Alaa Khalil Ibrahim was shot dead by unknown gunmen in the east of the capital, the official said.

Earlier, at least two Iraqi soldiers were killed and 15 people were wounded, including three United States soldiers, when a car bomb exploded on Thursday morning in Tikrit, northern Iraq, Iraqi police and the US military said.

The car bomb, which went off at 07:30 targetted a joint US-Iraqi military checkpoint in the north of the city, 180km north of Baghdad, US Major Richard Goldenberg said.

Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and 10 people wounded, three of them US soldiers, Goldenberg added.

Iraqi police confirmed that two Iraqi soldiers were killed, adding that 12 other Iraqis were wounded, seven of them soldiers.

- AFP