MNF kill 2, wound 1 near Kirkuk

KIRKUK / IraqiNews.com: Two people were killed and a third wounded when Multi-National Force (MNF) personnel opened fire on a house in the district of al-Huweija, southwest of Kirkuk, on Saturday, a source from the province’s police operations room said. “The MNF troops opened fire at a house in the village of al-Ilyawa, Huweija, (65 km) northwest of Kirkuk, killing Diaa Hussein Ali, a colonel of the dissolved former Iraqi army, and his wife Fataheya, and wounding his daughter Ahlam,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. The source neither indicated the motives behind the incident, nor gave furtherdetails about it. IraqiNews.com news agency failed to reach al-Miqdad Gabriel, the MNF media advisor, for comments. The city of Kirkuk lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. AmR (P)/SR 1