Telecom company guards killed, wounded in attack

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Two security personnel working for Asiacell Telecom were killed or wounded in an armed attack in Kirkuk city, a local police chief said on Monday. “At a late hour on Sunday (March 15) night, unknown gunmen launched an armed attack on an Asiacell telecommunications tower near Anwar al-Aasi village, killing a security guard and wounding another,” Brig. Sarhad Qadir told IraqiNews.com news agency. Asiacell refused to comment on the incident during a phone call with the agency. Asiacell, the first mobile telecommunications company in Iraq, was established in the city of Sulaimaniya in 1999. Kirkuk, an-oil rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 km northeast of Baghdad. SS (P) 1