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Media:AFP
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Date: 27 August 2006
KIRKUK, Iraq, Aug 27, 2006 (AFP) - Iraqi insurgents ambushed and killed four
Kurdish traffic cops on Sunday, including a young police academy graduate
who was travelling to meet his fiancee and arrange their wedding.
"The policemen were travelling in a car when they were stopped on the
highway between Kirkuk and Tikrit by unidentified gunmen. The four were shot
dead by the gunmen," said Captain Faras Mahmoud, a police officer in Kirkuk.
Abdullah Khir Allah told AFP that his 21-year-old son Mohammed had just
qualified as a police officer and was travelling south from the Kurdish town
of Erbil to the city of Samarra to see his future bride.
Three of his colleagues were travelling with him as escorts, but when they
neared Tikrit -- which was ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's hometown --
the Kurdish Shiite officers were ambushed by suspected Sunni Arab
insurgents.
"We worked so hard to bring him up. His mother was so busy with him until he
went to the academy, and he was to be married," Khir Allah said bitterly,
cursing the attackers and accusing US troops of failing to provide security.
Kirkuk, an ethnically mixed town and a centre of the Iraqi oil industry, has
seen a number of insurgent attacks in the past few months. Sunday's shooting
took place 50 kilometres (31 miles) south of the city.
Byline:n/a
Date: 27 August 2006
KIRKUK, Iraq, Aug 27, 2006 (AFP) - Iraqi insurgents ambushed and killed four
Kurdish traffic cops on Sunday, including a young police academy graduate
who was travelling to meet his fiancee and arrange their wedding.
"The policemen were travelling in a car when they were stopped on the
highway between Kirkuk and Tikrit by unidentified gunmen. The four were shot
dead by the gunmen," said Captain Faras Mahmoud, a police officer in Kirkuk.
Abdullah Khir Allah told AFP that his 21-year-old son Mohammed had just
qualified as a police officer and was travelling south from the Kurdish town
of Erbil to the city of Samarra to see his future bride.
Three of his colleagues were travelling with him as escorts, but when they
neared Tikrit -- which was ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's hometown --
the Kurdish Shiite officers were ambushed by suspected Sunni Arab
insurgents.
"We worked so hard to bring him up. His mother was so busy with him until he
went to the academy, and he was to be married," Khir Allah said bitterly,
cursing the attackers and accusing US troops of failing to provide security.
Kirkuk, an ethnically mixed town and a centre of the Iraqi oil industry, has
seen a number of insurgent attacks in the past few months. Sunday's shooting
took place 50 kilometres (31 miles) south of the city.