Gunman killed, local official’s wife wounded in Wassit

WASSIT / IraqiNews.com: A gunman was killed and a wife and a daughter of a local official were wounded in an armed attack on their house in northern Wassit on Wednesday, according to a local official. “Unknown gunmen stormed a house of Engineer Salim Fazaa, director of al-Ahrar district, western Kut, in al-Nuaamaniya region, northern Kut,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “Fazaa’s son killed one of the attackers after his mother and his sister have been wounded,” he added, noting that the gunmen fled, while police sealed off the region. Kut, the capital of Wassit, is 180 km southeast of Baghdad. SH (P) 25