Head of Iraqi City Education Dept. Killed

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Middle East - AP

KIRKUK, Iraq - Gunmen shot dead the head of this northern city's education department on Tuesday, police said.


Ibrahim Ismael was killed in a drive-by shooting as he drove to work in Kirkuk, said police Col. Sarhat Qadir.

The motive of the killing was unclear, but Ismael, an ethnic Turkman, had been criticized in the past by Kurds for appointing only Turkman officials to key posts in the department, which oversees primary and secondary schools in the city.

Kurds, Arabs and ethnic Turkmen have jostle for domination in oil-rich Kirkuk for months.

In other violence, insurgents opened fire on three policemen as they left a restaurant in Kirkuk early Tuesday, wounding three of them, Qadir said.

Another policeman was injured when a roadside bomb exploded near his police patrol ..

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