Insurgents shot dead an Iraqi woman lawmaker Lamiya Abed Khaduri outside her house in Baghdad on Wednesday, police said.

Khaduri, living in an eastern district of Baghdad, was elected to the 275-member national assembly in the Jan. 30 election under the Iraqi List led by outgoing interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi.

She was the first parliament member who was assassinated by insurgents since the landmark election.

Insurgents often attack high-ranking Iraqi officials in an attempt to derail the political process in the violence-ravaged country.

Allawi himself escaped an assassination attempt last week. A suicide car bomb was detonated near his convoy, killing two policemen.