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Member Of PUK Assassinated In Mosul

KUNA

ERBIL, Kurdistan-Iraq, Feb 1, - A member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, was assassinated Wednesday in the northern city of Mosul.

A PUK source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that unknown gunmen opened fire on two PUK staff late Tuesday, killing Ali Hassan Younis and wounding Majid Nouri.

He added that the attack occurred while the victims were entering their residence in Al-Jazaer neighborhood, noting that the attackers fled the scene.

Meanwhile, a source in Nineveh Police Command said that policemen found two, unidentified, beheaded human bodies in Adan neighborhood.

In a separate incident, an Iraqi citizen named Ismael Yousif was killed by gunmen in an industrial neighborhood.

Meanwhile, a security source in Tel Afer District told reporters that 12 Iraqi soldiers were killed and nine others were seriously wounded when four mortar rounds hit a military camp inside a hospital. The camp was established to provide security for the medical facility.

In another incident, four Iraqi policemen were wounded in southern Kurdish city of Kirkuk today when an explosive device targeted a police patrol securing oil facilities.

Chief of Police in Kirkuk Brigadier Sarhad Qader told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the explosion damaged two patrol vehicles.

Meanwhile, the Iraqi Police on Wednesday found the body of a Kurdish merchant on the road between Baghdad and Tikrit.

An Iraqi police source said that the merchant was abducted by unknown gunmen and was executed and dumped on the road nearby the town of Maryam Pak, noting that his car, money, and personal belongings were stolen.

The source added that the abductors left a letter in the victims' pocket claiming that they are part of Ansar Al-Sunnah group and that they would carry out other attack on the same road.