Baghdad, January 03: Seven Iraqis, including senior members of the security and police forces, have fallen victim to a new surge of violence that has hit the country’s troubled capital.
An Iraqi policeman was killed in northeastern Baghdad on Monday after he came under attack by a group of gunmen armed with guns fitted with silencers, Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported.
The assailants targeted the officer as he was driving on Baghdad’s Sarrafiya Bridge before fleeing to an unknown location, security sources said.
Armed robbers stormed the house of a Christian woman in Baghdad’s central neighborhood of al-Wahda, shot her dead and escaped with a number of her possessions.
The deadly attacks came hours after a series of overnight assassinations against Iraqi security officers in the capital.
In eastern Baghdad’s Canal district, a Traffic Department officer holding the rank of lieutenant brigadier was assassinated late on Sunday while an army officer, holding the rank of major, was shot dead in central Baghdad’s Tahariat District.
In a separate incident, two interior ministry employees were assassinated and an engineer was killed in the Suleikh district, northwest of the city.
The security official also said that an interior ministry official, reportedly a lieutenant brigadier, was injured when a group of armed men opened fire on him close to al-Nida mosque in northern Baghdad.
——–Agencies