Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi physician on Wednesday in the town of Iskandriya, 45 km south of Baghdad, a local police source said.
"Dr. Muhammad Gumer Hashim, a physician working in the hospital of Iskandriya, was killed by unidentified gunmen in front of his house while leaving to his work," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Separately, the Iraqi security forces captured Abu Hawra, a local leader of al-Qaida network in Iraq, in a hospital in Babel province after being tipped off that the suspect was receiving treatment of wounds sustained previously from separate incident, the source added.
Physicians, professors, intellectuals and other high-profile Iraqis are easy targets for different militias in this war-torn nation. Years of continuing violence have left many of them dead or displaced in and outside Iraq.
Source: Xinhua
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