Senior Iraq police chief shot dead

Source: AFP

BAGHDAD (AFP) — One of Baghdad's most senior police chiefs was assassinated in a drive-by shooting in the Iraqi capital on Monday, a police official said.

Gunmen shot dead the head of police operations, Abdul Hussein Mohsen al-Kadhemi, as he was driving in a central Baghdad district, the official told AFP.

In Mosul in the north, one policeman was killed and another was wounded when their patrol came under attack by gunmen in the centre of the country's second largest city, police said.

On Saturday, an Iraqi police general was killed on the street near the southern oil hub of Basra, in a rare instance of violence in the country's third largest urban area.

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