Gunmen kill 5 Iraq Oil Ministry guards
Posted on: Thursday, 6 October 2005, 06:55 CDT
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead five Iraqi Oil Ministry security guards who were driving to the northern city of Kirkuk on Thursday, police said.
Lieutenant Jawaad Abdullah said they were shot in the town of Uthaim south of Kirkuk. The attack came a day after a car bomb critically wounded six security guards for the state-owned North Oil Company in Kirkuk, an oil center.
In Baghdad, a suicide bomber in a car killed 10 people and wounded eight others when he blew himself up near the Oil Ministry.
Earlier this week, the oil minister survived an apparent assassination attempt when a bomb exploded beside his motorcade in Baghdad.
Insurgents have assassinated oil officials and sabotaged crude pipelines as part of a campaign aimed at toppling the U.S.-backed Iraqi government.
Iraq relies on oil exports of about 1.5 million barrels per day for virtually all its foreign currency earnings.
Source: REUTERS
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