BAGHDAD - At least seven Iraqis were killed and a power plant manager was kidnapped in continued violence around the country Sunday, police and hospital sources said.
In the most chilling attack, three Iraqis were gunned down near Iskandariyah as they waited for their cars to be repaired on a road just south of the capital, police said.
A member of the Shiite political party, the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), was killed and another was wounded in a drive-by shooting in southern Baghdad, an interior ministry source said.
In northern Iraq, Abdulraman Braisam, director of Buhruz power station, was kidnapped by three gunmen about 60 kilometres northwest of Baghdad, the interior ministry source said.
In Farhad, a national guardsman was killed and three others were wounded when a roadside bomb hit their car 110 kilomtres (70 miles) south of the oil city of Kirkuk, police said.
The bomb sparked a firefight that resulted in the arrest of three suspects, they said.
In Mosul, Ajeel Muhsin Ajeel, a member of the local government council, was killed in a drive-by shooting, said police Captain Isam Abdul Wahid.
Another Iraqi was killed and three policemen were wounded in a grenade attack targeting a police convoy in the city, police Major Mohammed Fathi said.
Sunni religious cleric Sheikh Mujahed Mohammed Taha was shot dead by unknown gunemen Saturday in Mahmudiyah, an area rife with strife, a representative of the Sunni Muslim Waqf (endowment) told AFP.
Meanwhile, medical sources said they received the bodies of two Iraqi soldiers killed by rebels near the Iranian border in Kut, 172 kilometres south of the capital.
04/10/2005 16:27 GMT