| BAGHDAD, July 1 (Xinhuanet) -- Ihsane Karim, a senior Iraqi finance ministry official, died of wounds in the Adan hospital Thursday, a hospital official said.
Karim, the head of the ministry's audit board, and three of his bodyguards were wounded earlier in the day as a remote-controlled bomb exploded when his convoy drove by in the west of Baghdad.
Karim's assistant and one of his bodyguards were killed instantly in the blast. Karim was on his way to office when the blast occurred at about 8:00 a.m. local time (0400 GMT).
One of Karim's bodyguards had told Xinhua that the bomb apparently targeted Karim, who was not the first senior Iraqi officials targeted and killed by militants.
Rotating president of the IGC, Izzedin Salim, was killed in a car bombing in May.
On June 12, Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Bassam Kubba was shot dead in Baghdad. The next day, Kamal al-Jarrah, director of cultural relations at Iraq's ministry of education, was gunned down in front of his house in Baghdad.
On June 16, gunmen shot and killed Ghazi Talabani, top security official for the Iraqi Northern Oil company, in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. Enditem |
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