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BAGHDAD, Sept 26 (KUNA) -- Unknown gunmen assassinated on Sunday evening
three senior Iraqi security officers in seperate attacks using weapons fitted
with silencers in Karkh, in Baghdad.
A police source told KUNA that the gunmen opened fired using weapons with
silencers against Colonel Sadeq Abdul Azim Al-Hilo, director of police
emergency battalions at Maysan province, while he was leaving a hotel near the
National Theatre in Al-Karrada district, killing him on the spot.
The source added that police at Al-Karrada arrested two suspects that
killed Al-Hilo during his visit to Baghdad for a special training.
Another source at the Defence Ministry said that the unidentified gunmen in
a car attacked a pickup car that was carrying a Major in Iraqi army near the
Al-Zawraa' park at Al-Mansura and shot him dead before they were able to
escape.
The Iraqi police cordoned off the scene while and hospitalized the officer,
which they did not reveal his identity at Al-Yarmouk Hospital.
In another scene, gunmen assassinated a Captain Haider Zuhair in the
Federal police using weapons that also included silencers near the Karkh
district court in Baghdad.(end)
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