Faculty deans killed, wounded in traffic accident

MUTHANNA / IraqiNews.com: The deans of the faculties of science and education in Muthanna University were killed or wounded in a traffic accident yesterday evening, a local media source said on Tuesday. “The dean of the Faculty of Science, Dr. Faiz Saheb Ghali, was killed; and the dean of the Faculty of Education, Dr. Safaa Jasem Mohammed, was wounded in the accident,” Adnan Sameer, a media director in Muthanna University, told IraqiNews.com. Dr. Mohammed was taken to the Public Hospital in Diwaniya city and is currently in a stable condition, the source added. Muthanna, 280 km south of Baghdad, is bordering Saudi Arabia. Its capital is Samawa. It was the first Iraqi province where security responsibilities were transferred from the Multi-National Force (MNF) to the Iraqis. On July 13, 2006 British, Australian, and Japanese forces handed over security responsibility for Muthanna province to Iraqi forces. Prior to 1976 it was part of the al-Diwaniya province. It also includes the ancient Sumerian ruin of Uruk, which is possibly the source of the name Iraq. SS (P) 1