Taxi driver gunned down near Arbil

ARBIL / IraqiNews.com: A taxi driver was shot down by unidentified gunmen to the east of Arbil on Sunday, the city’s police chief said. “Unknown gunmen attacked a taxi driver on the road linking Arbil to the district of Bana Salawa, (5 km) east of Arbil. The driver died after receiving several bullets,” Brig. Abdulkhaleq Talaat told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The motives behind the incident are still unknown,” he added. Arbil, the capital city of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, lies 349 km northeast of Baghdad. AmR (P)/SR 1