Insurgents in Iraq targeted local officials Thursday, gunning down an immigration official and bombing a town mayor.

A Babel provincial police spokesman told Kuwait's KUNA news agency a senior immigration official in the town of Iskandariya was gunned down in front of his house by several men in a passing car who then fled.

Soon after, a roadside bomb exploded in the town 35 miles south of Baghdad, killing the mayor and four of his bodyguards, a correspondent for China's Xinhua news agency reported.

The blast injured one other person and completely demolished two vehicles the mayor and his staff were in, the report said.

In Baghdad, four roadside car bombs killed seven people and injured 29 others, CNN quoted Interior Ministry officials as saying. // Copyright 2007 by United Press International


Publication date: 04 October 2007   

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