Contractor killed, wife wounded in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: A contractor was killed and his wife wounded in an armed attack with silencer guns in western Mosul city on Saturday, a security source in Ninewa. “Gunmen shot dead a contractor and injured his wife after they opened fire on them near the house of the wife’s parents in al-Amil neighborhood, western Mosul,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The contractor was supervising the construction of a clinic in the city,” he added. Mosul, the capital city of the troubled province of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.   AmR (TP)/SR 695