Police chief killed in Baghdad drive-by shooting
Gunmen shot dead a police chief and two other people in a Baghdad drive-by shooting today.
They opened fire on a pick-up truck carrying Colonel Ahmed Abeis, the head of a police station in the centre of the Iraqi capital, killing him, his driver and a guard, police said.
The white truck could be seen on the side of a road, its windows shattered and bullet-ridden.
Weeping, a brother of Abeis picked up an empty shoe from the back of the blood-smeared vehicle.
It was not known who shot the men, but Iraqi police and army troops, as well as top Iraqi politicians, are frequently targeted by insurgents who see them as collaborators with US forces.
In the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, gunmen killed an accountant working for KurdSat, a TV station belongs to the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of two main Kurdish parties.
The shootings came a day after officials revealed they had found 41 bodies at two sites in Iraq.
They said some of the badly decomposed corpses were Iraqi soldiers who were kidnapped and executed by insurgents. Others were civilians, including women and children who may have been killed because their families were seen as collaborators.
