BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Unknown gunmen shot dead a director-general of Iraq's Industry Ministry as he left his Baghdad home to go shopping, a ministry spokesman said on Wednesday. The attack occurred on Tuesday morning as Sabir Karim was leaving his home in Sadiya district to shop before heading to work.
"He was shot by gunmen using a silencer," spokesman Seif Abdel-Rahman said. "We don't have any idea who carried out the attack, it's still under investigation." Abdel-Rahman said Karim was a manager in the auditing department of the ministry.
Assassinations have been common in Iraq in the 15 months since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime.
On Monday, the head of Iraq's Olympic committee, Ahmed al-Samarrai, survived an assassination attempt in central Baghdad in which insurgents opened fire and threw hand grenades at his two-vehicle convoy.
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