Unidentified gunmen shot dead a member of the provincial council of Nineveh in the provincial capital of Mosul on Tuesday, a police source said.
"Aref Yousif Qunber, the Nineveh council member and chairman of the council's culture and information committee, was killed when gunmen in two cars intercepted his convoy in northeastern Mosul on his way to work in the morning," Brigadier Abdul Kareem al-Jubouri, head of the provincial police operation, told Xinhua.
One of Qunber's bodyguards was also killed in the attack and another was wounded, Jubouri added.
Qunber is a key local leader for the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, headed by the powerful Shiite leader Abdul Aziz al-Hakim.
Qunber's death brings the number of the council's members killed in the province to 13 since its establishment in 2005.
Mosul, some 400 km north of Baghdad, has long been the hotbed of insurgency since the U.S.-led invasion broke out in 2003.
Source: Xinhua
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