Bomb kills Iraqi province's governor, police chief
Paul Tait
The governor and police chief of Iraq's Shi'ite province of Diwaniya were killed when a roadside bomb hit their convoy of vehicles on Saturday, police said. Diwaniya governor Khalil Jalil Hamza and police chief Major-General Khaled Hassan were returning to the provincial capital of the same name, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, when their convoy of four-wheel drives was hit. Hassan had been in the job for less than a week, police said. Hamza was a member of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), the biggest Shi'ite party in Iraq. They had been attending the funeral of a leading tribal sheikh in the town of Efaj, 30 km (18 miles) east of the city. Three of their bodyguards were killed and three others wounded. Local authorities quickly imposed an indefinite curfew...
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The governor and police chief of Iraq's Shi'ite province of Diwaniya were killed when a roadside bomb hit their convoy of vehicles on Saturday, police said. Diwaniya governor Khalil Jalil Hamza and police chief Major-General Khaled Hassan were returning to the provincial capital of the same name, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, when their convoy of four-wheel drives was hit. Hassan had been in the job for less than a week, police said. Hamza was a member of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), the biggest Shi'ite party in Iraq. They had been attending the funeral of a leading tribal sheikh in the town of Efaj, 30 km (18 miles) east of the city. Three of their bodyguards were killed and three others wounded. Local authorities quickly imposed an indefinite curfew...
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