URGENT / Oil products director wounded in Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Director of the oil products in Ninewa was wounded on Monday by a gunshot in eastern Mosul, a security source said. “Unknown gunmen opened fire on Monday evening on the Director of oil products department in Ninewa, Taha Abdulrahman Othman, in front of his house in Palestine neighborhood, eastern Mosul, seriously wounding him,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The man was rushed to Arbil hospital for treatment,” he added, without giving more details. Mosul, the capital of Ninewa, is 405 km north of Baghdad. SH (TP) 605