Three Lebanese shot dead in Baghdad: foreign ministry

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BEIRUT (AFP) - Three Lebanese, one of them a woman, were shot dead "in mysterious circumstances" in Baghdad, the foreign ministry announced in Beirut.

Businessmen Georges Badine and Karim Khoury were gunned down with Khoury's wife at the home of one of them, the reports reaching the ministry said.

The two men ran a food import business with an Iraqi associate, which they had set up just a few months ago.

In the aftermath of last year's US-led invasion, many hundreds of Lebanese flocked to Iraq to do business or take jobs in the booming security industry.

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