Iraqi governor, police chief assassinated

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DIWANIYAH, Iraq - The governor and police chief of Iraq’s southern Shiite city of Diwaniyah were killed when a bomb attack ripped through their convoy on Saturday, local security and health officials said.

“The hospital in Diwaniyah received the governor and police chief, and three other corpses from their security detail,” said Doctor Hamid Gaati, head of the health directorate in Diwaniyah, 200 kilometres (120 miles) south of Baghdad.

Speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorised to release the information, a senior security official in Diwaniyah said they were killed in a muliple bomb attack on their conoy.

“More than 10 IEDs (roadside bombs) targeted a convoy of the governor and the chief of police on their way back from Afak to the centre of the city, killing the governor of Diwaniyah and the chief of police,” said the official.