Attackers have killed the governor of the Iraqi city of Mosul as he was driving in a
convoy of vehicles towards Baghdad.
An Interior Ministry source said the assailants threw a grenade at the governor's vehicle and fired automatic weapons, the source said.
"He was on his way to Baghdad with a security escort of four cars, when the attackers in another car pulled up beside his vehicle and threw a grenade, and then shot at his car," said the source, who declined to be named.
Iraqi officials have frequently been targeted for assassination by insurgents battling US-led troops and Iraqi security forces in the country.
Yesterday, Mr Sabir Karim, a director-general of the Industry Ministry, who was shot dead as he left his Baghdad home.
