Al-Iraqiya Parliamentary candidate assassinated in Mosul

NINEWA / Awat al-Iraq: A former candidate for the Iraqi Parliament by al-Iraqiya List, led by former Prime Minister, Iyad Allawi, had been assassinated, together with one of her guards, in northern Iraq ’s city of Mosul in Thursday, a security source said on Saturday.   “Al-Iraqiya Parliamentary candidate for the previous elections, Raw’a Naf’e al-Ugeidy, was shot dead, together with one of her guards, close to her house in eastern Mosul on Thursday afternoon, when a group of gunmen opened fire on her, also wounding another of her guards,” the security source told IraqiNews.com news agency.   Ugeidy, born in 1962, had been working as an administrative assistant in one of Mosul ’s hospitals,   the source added, giving no further details.   Mosul , the center of Ninewa Province , is 405 km to the north of Baghdad .   SKH (ST)     643