10 doctors killed in Iraq
10/08/2005 14:47  - (SA)  

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Karbala - Unidentified gunmen ambushed a group of doctors on their way to help at hospitals, west of Baghdad, killing 10 of them, said medical sources on Wednesday.

The sources said the physicians were travelling to the city of Ramadi when armed men intercepted their vehicle on Tuesday evening.

The sources said among the victims, were Dr Youssef Alewi and two of his assistants from the Karbala health department, in north Iraq.

 

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