KIRKUK – Gunmen fired on a top anti-terror official in northern Iraq, killing two of his sons and leaving the officer and another son wounded, police said Friday. Colonel Abbas Nuri had been exiting a shop late Thursday in Tuz Khurmatu and walking to his car, where his three teenage sons were waiting, when gunmen opened fire on the family and fled, the town’s police chief Colonel Ali al-Hamdani said.
Two of Nuri’s sons, aged 15 and 16, were killed, while his 18-year-old boy was badly wounded, a medical official said. Nuri, 54, suffered gunshot wounds to his right arm and thigh and his chest but is now in stable condition. Tuz Khurmatu, in Kirkuk province, is 175 kilometres (110 miles) north of Baghdad.
