Policeman Killed In Basra, Two More In Separate Attacks In Northern In Iraq

BASRA, Iraq, Aug 23 (AFP) - A police officer was shot dead by an unknown assailant in the southern Iraqi city of Basra Monday, while further attacks in the north of the violence-ridden country left two other Iraqis dead.
An AFP correspondent saw a masked man walk up to a car at a petrol station in Basra and fire two bullets into the head of the policeman sitting behind the wheel. He tried to shoot a woman next to him but missed.
Police Lieutenant Amar Hamid confirmed the policeman died from two bullets in the head.
In the northern ethnically-divided city of Kirkuk, a member of one of the two main Kurdish parties -- the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan -- was also shot dead in his car Monday morning, police there said.
"Shezad Hussein Ali al-Jabari, 28, was shot in the head inside his car on his way back from visiting relatives. There were three attackers and they escaped," said Colonel Sarhad Kader.
In another incident, a Kurdish truck driver was killed and two others wounded on the road between Kirkuk and Tikrit when their convoy carrying concrete blocks used by coalition forces to protect their bases was attacked, the same source said.