Unknown gunmen on Monday shot dead the local office head of a Sunni Arab party in a town near Mosul, the capital city of Iraq's Nineveh province, a provincial police source said.
"Abdul Bari Ibrahim, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party, was shot when unknown gunmen opened fire on his car in Allaw village in the ethnically mixed town of Tal Afar, some 70 km west of Mosul," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
It was the second attack targeting members in the Islamic Party in two days. On Sunday a roadside bomb detonated near the car of Khaled al-Ubeidi, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party in Fallujah city, who escaped the attack with wounds.
The Iraqi Islamic Party headed by Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, is part of the Accordance Front, a major Sunni bloc in the Iraqi parliament.
Separately, five mortar rounds landed on the provincial government office in Mosul on Monday, wounding six people, including two government employees, the source said.
Nineveh province, some 400 km north of Baghdad, which said to be one of the last strongholds of al-Qaida fighters in the war-torn country, is the scene of a major security crackdown carried out by the U.S. and Iraqi security forces to uproot al-Qaida militants and other anti-U.S. insurgent groups there.
Source:Xinhua
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