Election officials killed in ambush

About 30 gunmen ambushed a car today in central Baghdad carrying employees of the Iraqi organisation running next month’s elections, killing three of the workers while two escaped unhurt, an official from the election body said.

Adel al-Lami, a member of the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, said the early morning attack took place in downtown Baghdad’s Haifa Street, the scene of repeated clashes between security forces and insurgents.