Tikrit police chief gunned down
Thursday, 23 August 2007
TIKRIT, Iraq, Aug 22 (AFP): Insurgents gunned down a Tikrit police chief in front of his house in Al-Qadissiya neighbourhood late Tuesday, Iraqi police said.
Colonel Othman Chechan, chief of operations for Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad, was walking in the street when unknown attackers opened fire at him, a police official said.
"He was shot dead in front of his house by insurgents in a car, who then fled," the official said, asking not to be named as he is not authorised to speak to the media.
Tikrit is the home town of executed dictator Saddam Hussein and capital of Salahuddin province, Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland.
Colonel Othman Chechan, chief of operations for Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad, was walking in the street when unknown attackers opened fire at him, a police official said.
"He was shot dead in front of his house by insurgents in a car, who then fled," the official said, asking not to be named as he is not authorised to speak to the media.
Tikrit is the home town of executed dictator Saddam Hussein and capital of Salahuddin province, Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland.