Iraqi Minister Escapes Assassination

World | March 29, 2004, Monday // 00:00

Gunmen opened fire Sunday on a convoy carrying Iraq's minister of public works, killing a driver and a bodyguard and injuring two others. The minister, Nisreen Berwari, was unharmed. Berwari was returning to Mosul from a meeting in the city of Dohuk when her convoy was attacked. Berwari is a member of the Kurdish party. Iraqi police said the attack occurred around 11 a.m. in the al-Karama neighborhood of Mosul. They said the two men who were killed were both bodyguards, and that Berwari was in another car that was not hit by gunfire.

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