Man, wife shot down in Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: A group of gunmen on Wednesday broke into a house in Kirkuk city and killed a man and his wife before they fled to an unknown destination, according to a local police chief. “Autopsy reports say that the dead were shot with a pistol,” Brig. Sarhad Qadir told IraqiNews.com news agency. The incident occurred in Huzayran neighborhood in southwestern Kirkuk city, Qadir noted, adding that an investigation is currently underway. Kirkuk, an oil-rich and mixed city of Kurds, Turkmen, Christians and Arabs, lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. SS (P)/SR 1