Gunmen kill police officer in eastern Baghdad

Gunmen in sport utility vehicles intercepted the car of an Iraqi police officer in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, killing him and a policeman along with kidnapping his driver, a police source said.

"Yasin Ibrahim, a Colonel in Baghdad's Risafa Police Directorate, was killed by gunmen riding SUVs on the al-Qanat Street near the al-Ghadier neighborhood," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The gunmen shot dead a noncommissioned police officer, accompanying Ibrahim, and kidnapped Ibrahim's driver, he said.

Earlier, unknown gunmen stormed the house of Mudhaffar al- Ubaidy, a judge working for the Iraqi cabinet, in Baghdad's western district of al-Khadraa and kidnapped him.

Violence rages in Iraq as kidnappings, sectarian killings, car bombings, roadside bombs claim dozens of Iraqi lives daily.

Source: Xinhua