Awwal 15, 1432, April 19, 2011, SPA -- Gunmen stormed a house in a northern city in Iraq, killing three women who lived there, police said Tuesday. Police Col. Sherzad Mofaly said it's not clear why the women were targeted in the attack late Monday in the city of Kirkuk, according to a report of the Associated Press. Separately, a senior Education Ministry official was killed Tuesday by a bomb that was hidden on his car in Baghdad, according to police and hospital officials. Abdul-Amir Hussein was headed to work from his home in Dora in southern Baghdad when he died. Also in Baghdad, three policemen and two bystanders were wounded by a roadside bomb in Baghdad on Tuesday. The bomb was planted near a security checkpoint outside Iraq's Finance Ministry.
