Senior oil official wounded in eastern Mosul

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: The director of oil products distribution department in Ninewa was wounded on Wednesday by gunfire in eastern Mosul, a security source said. “Unknown gunmen opened fire this evening on Mohammad Younis Ismail, the director of the oil products distribution department in Ninewa, in al-Methaq neighborhood, seriously injuring him,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “He was admitted to the intensive care in a nearby hospital,” he added. Mosul, the capital of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.   SH (TP)/SR 909