Al-Iraqiya Alliance candidate dies of wounds in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Parliament’s candidate from al-Iraqiya Alliance died on Monday of wounds he sustained earlier in western Mosul, a police source said. “Bashar Mohammad Hamed al-Akidi died in the hospital of wounds,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. He did not give more details. Another police source said that the man and his driver were wounded earlier when unknown gunmen opened fire on them in front of his house in al-Aamel neighborhood in western Mosul. Mosul, the capital of Ninewa, is 405 km north of Baghdad. SH (P) 3