Iraq govt aide shot dead

A top aide to Iraq’s finance ministry was gunned down in western Baghdad, police said – one of six people killed or found dead across Iraq today.

Qutaiba Badir al-Din Mohammed, a Sunni adviser to Iraq’s finance minister, died at around 11am when two carloads of gunmen showered his vehicle with bullets in the capital’s al-Jamia neighbourhood, police said. His driver was also killed in the attack, they said.