With 15 bullets... the assassination of a judge in the middle of the street in Iraq

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A judge specializing in drug cases was shot dead Saturday by unidentified gunmen in the city of Al-Amarah in southern Iraq, according to security and medical sources.

An emergency police officer told AFP, on condition of anonymity, that "unidentified gunmen opened fire at Judge Ahmed Faseel Khassaf, who specializes in drug cases in the Maysan Appeals Court, in the Shabana neighborhood near his home near his workplace in the center of the city of Al-Amarah, and shot him dead on immediately, and fled to an unknown destination.

The source added that the judge "was hit by 15 bullets with a Kalashnikov."

A health employee in the forensic medicine department stated that "the judge was shot in the head and chest."

At the present time, no party has claimed responsibility for the assassination of the judge.

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