Gunmen kills four at Iraq funeral

Iraqi officials said gunmen have fatally shot four people at a funeral in the northern city of Mosul.

Iraqi officials said gunmen have fatally shot four people at a funeral in the northern city of Mosul.

Police and medical officials said the gunmen wounded four other mourners when they opened fire in a funeral tent today.

They say the attack occurred in the Mosul neighbourhood of Zanjili.

Insurgents are active in Zanjili, where four Iraqi employees of a television station were kidnapped and killed last month.

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