Police chief gunned down
2005-03-28 08:53
Baghdad - A colonel in the Iraqi police was gunned down with his driver in Baghdad on Monday.
Another two people were killed when a roadside bomb hit a police patrol in the capital, security and hospital sources said.
Colonel Abdul Karim Fahid, chief of the Balaat al-Shuhada station in the capital's southern Dura district, was shot dead along with his driver at about 05:00 GMT, a defence ministry source said.
In further violence targeting the country's security forces, a policeman and a road cleaner were killed when a roadside bomb planted in a garbage dump, detonated in the path of a police patrol in Al-Amil neighbourhood on the capital's southwest side, police said.
A source at Yarmuk hospital said his facility received one dead policeman and seven wounded, including six policemen, from the attack.