Contractor’s body found southwest of Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Police forces on Monday found the body of an Iraqi contractor in southwest of Kirkuk, a senior police officer said. “Policemen found on Monday morning the body of, Mohammad Khalaf Ahmad, a contractor, born in 1974, near al-Rashad district, southwest of Kirkuk,” Brig. Sarhad Qader, the director of the Kirkuk Districts’ Police Department (KDPD), told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The body bore signs of gunshot wounds to the chest,” he added, noting the body was sent to the Azadi hospital’s morgue. He gave no more details. The oil-rich Kirkuk, a city of mixed Arab, Kurdish and Turkmen population, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. SH (P)/SR 2