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Senior oil official shot dead by gunmen in Iraq's Kirkuk

Xinhua, June 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

Unidentified gunmen on Sunday shot dead a senior Iraqi oil official in the city of Kirkuk, a local police source told Xinhua.

Saad Hassan al-Karbalie, head of operations in the state-owned North Oil Company, was killed when gunmen opened fire on his car while he was leaving his office, the source said on condition of anonymity.

The ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk is part of the disputed areas claimed by the Kurds and both Arabs and Turkomans. The Kurds want to incorporate the areas on the edge of their Kurdistan region, but their move is fiercely opposed by Baghdad government.

Iraq has been witnessing some of the worst violence in years. Terrorism and violence have killed at least 12,282 civilians and wounded 23,126 others in 2014, according to United Nations report. Endit