Police chief shot dead in Iraq

Attackers shot and killed the police chief of the central Iraqi town of Budayr early today, the Polish military said.

The assailants shot Col. Ghaib Hadab Zarib with an assault rifle and then fled by car, the Polish-led international security force said in a statement from its headquarters in Diwaniyah, southeast of Baghdad.

Zarib’s body was found near his home. A woman was wounded in the attack, the statement said.

Poland commands a 4,700-strong international force in central Iraq that works closely with Iraqi security officials in the area.