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Five people killed in Mosul, Kirkuk

IRBIL, June 15 (KUNA) -- Five Iraqis were killed on Sunday, including a university professor, in separate incidents of violence in the towns of Mosul and Kirkuk in northern Iraq.
A source in the Iraqi police in Mosul told KUNA that unknown gunmen opened fire on Waleed Saad Al-Mawla, a professor of the Faculty of Science at the University of Mosul, while heading to his work in the Al-Hadbaa neighborhood north of Mosul, killing him on the spot and wounding two of his sons, one of them seriously.
It added that the unknown gunmen opened fire on two policemen while they were in a market of the city of Mosul, killing them instantly. (end) sbr.tg KUNA 151806 Jun 08NNNN