Gunmen shoot down aged man in Mosul

NINEWA /Iraqi News Two unidentified gunmen shot dead a crippled aged man inside his house in western Mosul city on Sunday, a local Iraqi police source in Ninewa province said. “Two gunmen broke and entered a house in al-Tanak neighborhood, western Mosul, and used their hand guns to shoot dead at an 83-year-old crippled man and ran away,” the source told Iraqi News. “There was no one in the house but the octogenarian man and some women,” he added, not giving further details about the incident. Mosul, the capital city of the violence-ridden province of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P)/SR 2