Deputy Baghdad police chief assassinated
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-01-10 15:19

The deputy police chief of Baghdad and his son, also a police officer, were assassinated Monday, an interior ministry official said.

An Iraqi hospital worker covers the body of the brother of the deputy police chief of Baghdad after both of them were assassinated while travelling in Baghdad, early January 10, 2005. Gunmen assassinated Baghdad's deputy police chief Brigadier Amer Nayef and his brother on Monday as insurgents pressed a campaign to wreck Iraq's January 30 election, source said. [Reuters]

Brig. Amer Ali Nayef and his son, Lt. Khalid Amer, were gunned down in Baghdad's south Dora district while traveling in a car on their way to work, said a spokesman for the ministry, Capt. Ahmed Ismail.

The killings were the latest in a series of assassinations of ranking Iraqi security force officials on the eve of a landmark Jan. 30 election that insurgents are trying to disrupt.

Last Tuesday, gunmen shot dead the governor of Baghdad, Ali al-Haidari, and six of his bodyguards.

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