By Xinhua,
Baghdad : Unknown gunmen shot dead a seniorofficer in the Iraqi Interior Ministry in western Baghdad on Sunday morning, a ministry source said.
“Brigadier Adel Abbas was gunned down with his driver by unknown armed men while leaving his house in the Adil neighborhood,” the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
In separate incident, Major Ammar, another ministry officer, was seriously wounded when gunmen showered his car with bullets inBaghdad al-Jadida district, or New Baghdad, the source said.
Violence has dropped to a four-year low in Iraq, while sporadicroadside bombs, car bombings and suicide attacks are still haunting Iraqis.