Police chief and driver gunned down
Gunmen fired on a vehicle carrying a town’s police chief south of Baghdad today, killing both him and his driver, police said.
The shooting occurred as Col. Wisam Hussein, police chief of Mahmoudiya town, 20 miles south of Baghdad, was returning home from a trip to the capital, Lt. Ala’a Hussein said.
The killing came a day after a police commander in the southern city of Kufa was shot and killed while driving.
There has been a string of attacks in recent weeks on police officers, who insurgents consider as collaborators with the U.S.-led occupation.
The deadliest was on March 24 when nine police recruits were killed when gunmen shot at their vehicle in southern Babil province.
More than 350 policemen have been killed by shootings and suicide bombings since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s regime last year.
