Saeed Hamdan Ghazal, who had just completed evening prayers in the town of Heet, was shot dead by attackers on a motorcycle who managed to flee the scene, two police officials said.
Ghazal was killed instantly, according to a police spokesman and Iyada al-Nimrawi, the town`s deputy police chief.
Wednesday`s violence comes around three weeks after US troops completed their withdrawal from Iraq, leaving security in the country solely in the hands of domestic forces. (*)
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