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Gunmen Kill Member of Iraqi Parliament

Sep 18, 2005

AP

Insurgents killed a Kurdish member of Iraqi parliament, his brother and the driver of his car and wounded a second lawmaker in an ambush on their convoy north of Baghdad , police and officials said Sunday.

Faris Nasir Hussein, a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party, was killed in the attack Saturday night, along with his brother and their driver, said Peshro Ibrahim, a National Assembly official.

Ibrahim said another PUK lawmaker, Haidar Shanoun, was wounded in the same attack near the town of Dujail, 50 miles north of Baghdad.