Gunmen killed a senior official of Iraq's North Oil Co. in the northeastern city of Mosul Thursday, officials said.
Sana Toma Sulaiman, the deputy director of the company's oil products department in the Nineveh province, was shot dead as he was on his way to work in a taxi, said Hazim Jallawi, a spokesman for the Nineveh governor's office, according to The AP.
Meanwhile, American warplanes bombed targets in east Baghdad slum of Sadr City, killing at least one person and injuring 12, hospital officials said Thursday.
According to eyewitnesses, an American Bradley fighting vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade and caught fire.
Elsewhere, American occupation soldiers sealed off the city of Samarra and called in air strikes. "The Americans have struck last night and this morning Al-Qadassiyah neighborhood with Apache helicopters. Three people were killed, including one old woman. Those three bodies were brought out from the wreckage," conveyed police chief Colonel Mohammed Fadel, according to AFP.
Twenty-one cars were burnt or damaged in the strikes, he added. (albawaba.com)
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