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IRAQ: GUNMEN KILL 15 PEOPLE IN BAGHDAD December 5, 2006
Zainab Osman
(SomaliNet) Unknown gunmen attacked on Tuesday morning a minivan carrying employees of a Shiite organization in northern Baghdad neighborhood killing 14 people and wounding nine others, an Interior Ministry source said.
"Gunmen ambushed a mini-van carrying employees of the Shiite Endowment office on a road junction in Adhamiyah neighborhood and opened fire, killing 14 employees and wounding four others," said the source.
Violence sweeps Iraqi cities as insurgent attacks, sectarian killings, car bombings, roadside bombs claim dozens of Iraqi lives daily. The blast was followed by an attack from gunmen, traveling in one car, at the same minibus.