Unknown gunmen kill a Palestinian man in Iraq

Monday February 26, 2007 13:40 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Sources in the Iraqi capital Baghdad reported on Monday that a Palestinian refugee was killed by a group of unknown gunmen. 

 The man who is identified as Anwar Mohamed was found dead in a street in downtown Baghdad city near a vegetable market. The man's family reported that a group of masked unknown gunmen attacked the family house located Al Sieha neighborhood in the city; an area which is mainly inhabited by Palestinian refugees. The gunmen destroyed the house then kidnapped Anwar and another, disabled, man. The disabled man was released shortly after being kidnapped on Sunday, he suffered from bone fractures due to torture while Anwar died after being shot in the head on Monday morning.

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