British consulate translators killed
26/08/2006 - 12:44:17Gunmen in a speeding car opened fire today on two sisters working as translators for the British consulate in Iraq, killing one of them and seriously wounding the oher, police said.
The two women were walking near their house in centralBasra when they were shot, said a police official.
A man claiming to represent the Brigades of Imam al-Hussein, a known Shiite militia, took responsibility for the attack.
The caller said the group was “giving Iraqi people the good news of killing two agents who work for the British forces”.
Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city, is 340 miles southeast of Baghdad.
