Kurdish communist party member killed in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Police on Saturday found a member of the Kurdistan Communist Party killed inside his house in northern Kirkuk, the province’s police chief said. “The police found Mohieddin Rassoul killed inside his home in Sirkareez neighborhood, al-Shurja area, northern Kirkuk,” Col. Bistoun Mohammed Qassabi told IraqiNews.com, adding the body showed signs of having been shot and bruised in the head. “The incident, the second of its kind since last December, is currently being investigated,” Qassabi said, not giving more details. On December 18, 2008, a woman member of the Kurdistan Communist Party’s Women’s League was found dead inside her home in al-Qadissiya neighborhood, southern Kirkuk, according to Brig. Sarhad Qader, the chief of the Kirkuk Districts’ Police Department. Kirkuk lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P) 1