Mosul, May 25: An Iraqi MP from the secular Iraqiya bloc of Iyad Allawi was assassinated on Monday in the restive northern city of Mosul, a doctor at the city’s main hospital said.
“Gunmen set up an ambush for MP Bashar Hamid al-Graydi outside his house in the Amil neighbourhood and opened fire when he got home,” a police officer said, adding the lawmaker was rushed to hospital in “serious condition”.
Doctor Fares al-Obeidi confirmed that Graydi died of his wounds.
The Iraqiya bloc of former premier Allawi won the March 07 vote with 91 seats in Iraq’s 325-member Council of Representatives, while incumbent Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s State of Law alliance came second with 89 seats.
Mosul, 350 kilometres north of Baghdad, is the capital of Nineveh province — one of the country’s most violent cities and a hotspot of insurgent attacks.
–PTI