Baghdad, February 27: An Iraqi university instructor has been shot dead and two Iraqi soldiers have been wounded in a bombing, while security forces have discovered three dead bodies in northern Iraq.
Saad Abduljabbar, a professor at Baghdad Technological University, was killed in the al-Sayyediya area in southwestern Baghdad on Saturday, a security source told the Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Abduljabbar was in his private car when men armed with silenced firearms shot him dead, the report said.
In central Baghdad, two soldiers were wounded when an improvised explosive device targeting their patrol detonated, in the al-Fadl area.
Security forces cordoned off the scene of the bombing and sealed off all the roads leading to the area after the blast.
Meanwhile, police found the bodies of three people in the northern city of Kirkuk.
One of the bodies was found in the area of Musala, near a cemetery in central Kirkuk, and was identified as Omar Raji Abbas, 17.
The youth, reportedly a resident of central Kirkuk, had his hands tied and seemed to have been shot.
Earlier, the bodies of two unidentified young men aged 18-20 were discovered at a construction site in the al-Qadissiya neighborhood in southern Kirkuk.
The police said that an investigation had been launched into the murder cases.
——–Agencies