Two people including a university professor were killed and two others wounded, while gunmen kidnapped a woman with her son, for unknown reasons in separate incidents of violence in Baghdad and Kirkuk. In Baghdad, a university professor was killed and at least one of his children wounded when unidentified gunmen stormed their home in western Baghdad. In Kirkuk, 260 km from here, an Iraqi farmer was killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen at his home.