Gunmen attack house of SIIC official in Wassit

WASSIT / IraqiNews.com: Unknown gunmen on Friday attacked the house of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) official in Wassit and burned his private car, a police source said. “Unidentified gunmen early Friday (Jan. 30) attacked the house of the official of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council in Wassit, Ahmad al-Hakeem, in al-Ahrar district in west of Kut and set his private car ablaze,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The police sealed off the region in an attempt to arrest the gunmen,” he noted. Al-Hakeem is one of Shahid al-Mihrab’s candidates to the Wassit provincial council. Based in Najaf, the Shahid al-Mihrab Foundation is an offshoot of the Shiite SIIC and has branches in several Iraqi provinces. Kut, the capital of Wassit, lies 180 km southeast of Baghdad. SH (P) 2