Egyptian killed, Iraqi Turkoman abducted in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: An Egyptian resident has been killed and an Iraqi Turkoman was abducted in northern Iraq’s oil-rich city of Kirkuk on Sunday, a Kirkuk police officer said on Monday. “The body of an Egyptian man was found killed in his house in central Kirkuk‘s Shaturlu district on Sunday night,” Brig. Sarhad Qadir told IraqiNews.com news agency. In another incident, Kirkuk‘s Miqdad Police Director, Kamel Ahmed, said that four unknown gunmen, have abducted a Turkoman citizen close to his house in the main road leading to Baghdad in southern Kirkuk. “The abducted man works in a money exchange bureau close to Kirkuk‘s Grand Nur Mosque,” he said, giving no further details. Kirkuk is 280 km to the northeast of Baghdad. SKH (TP)/SR   562