By DPA
Baghdad : Extremists have killed two aides of Iraq’s spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported Friday.
Sheikh Ahmed al-Jabani, one of al-Sistani’s representatives in the mostly Shiite southern port city of Basra, was killed in the west of the city.
A second al-Sistani aide, Sheikh Adnan al-Jabani, was injured in the attack.
At approximately the same time in the city of Diwaniyah, Sheikh Ahmed Abdul Karim Bashir, a representative of al-Sistani, was killed by unknown assailants, Aswat al-Iraq reported, citing security sources.
In recent days, two other aides of the spiritual leader of Iraq’s Shiites who lives in the holy city of Najaf in the centre of Iraq died in attacks in Basra.
A bodyguard was also killed in one of the attacks, the news agency reported.