The Iraqi Olympic Committee said Monday that its assistant secretary-general died of wounds sustained from gunmen attack last week.
"Dr. Ra'ad Jaber died of wounds in a Baghdad hospital on Sunday after being attacked by gunmen in the Sa'doun Street in central Baghdad on Wednesday," Hussein al-Amidi, the acting secretary-general of the committee, told Xinhua.
Jaber was accompanied by members of the Iraqi basketball federation when the gunmen attacked them, Amidi said.
Ra'ad Salman, an Iraqi basketball referee was killed instantly during the attack while Fikrat Toma, coach of national basketball team, escaped the attack with a gunshot wound in his thigh, he said.
The attack came as fierce clashes between Shiite Mahdi Army militiamen and the U.S.-backed Iraqi security forces spiraled in several southern Iraqi cities in addition to Baghdad.
The clashes erupted on last Tuesday has caused hundreds of Iraqi casualties.
Source:Xinhua
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