Woman killed in drive-by shooting in Iraq

A female official with the Census Department was shot dead today while she was riding to work with her husband in northern Iraq, police said.

Gunmen in two cars opened fire on the woman about 9.30am as her husband was driving her to work at the Nationalities and Census Department in Mosul, 220 miles north-west of Baghdad, police Brig. Abdul Karim al-Jubouri said.