Three shootings killed four people across Iraq, police said Thursday, including one attack in the capital that left a young girl wounded and her parents dead, according to AP. In the attack that orphaned the 12-year old, police said gunmen killed the girl's mother and father, a pharmacist, late Wednesday in west Baghdad. The girl was lightly injured and later taken by relatives, said Dr. Muhannad Jawad of the Yarmouk Hospital. In a western district of Baghdad, a police officer traveling to work Thursday was killed in a drive-by shooting. Police 1st Lt. Hamid Mahmoud was killed and a taxi driver injured in the attack, Jawad said. A government worker in Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's office, Thair Wahib al-Jumili, was seriously wounded by gunmen north of Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said. In southern Iraq, gunmen burst into the home of an intelligence official from the Defense Ministry and killed him Thursday in Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, said police Capt. Mushtaq Kadhim. Lt. Col. Ibrahim Khalil was killed as he was preparing for work. --SP 1259 Local Time 0959 GMT
