Iraqi parliament member killed in ambush

Insurgents killed an Iraqi member of parliament and wounded a second in an ambush north of Baghdad, police and officials said today.

Faris Nasir Hussein, a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party, was killed in the attack on Saturday night, along with his brother and the driver of the car, said Peshro Ibrahim, a National Assembly official.

Ibrahim said another PUK lawmaker, Haidar Shanoun, was wounded in the attack near the town of Dujail, 50 miles miles north of Baghdad.