Iraqi banker shot dead
Gunmen in two speeding cars killed a Sunni Arab banker as he was leaving his house in northern Iraq this morning, police said.
Khairallah Fakhri Ahmed, 65, the director of Iraq’s Central Bank branch in Mosul, was killed on the spot when the assailants sprayed him with bullets, police Brig Abdul-Karim al-Jabouri said.
Ahmed’s driver and guard, who were waiting for him outside his house, were also killed in the attack which occurred at 8am local time, al-Jabouri added.
The violence-wracked city of Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad has been scene of Iraq’s deadliest attacks against Iraqi security forces and governmental officials.
