A leading judge in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was assassinated last night.
The Kurdish judge, Youssef Khoshi, was shot and killed by three men in a car last night.
"He was shot six times from behind in the back. He died immediately," said a police spokesman.
Khoshi was one of three chief investigative judges in Mosul. Iraq oil executives, police and other judges working under the US administration ruling Iraq have been targeted in similar attacks.
