Iraqi provincial governor dies after grenade attack on convoy

INSURGENTS yesterday killed an Iraqi provincial governor and two of his guards in a grenade attack on his convoy.

Osama Youssef Kashmoula, the governor of the northern Nineveh province, was attacked with machine gun fire and grenades as he was travelling to the capital, Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said.

The US military said the governor was wounded in the attack, which happened between Beji and Tikrit, and later died in hospital.