Gunmen shot dead the son of Iraq's top judge along with two of his bodyguards and dumped their bodies in Baghdad, officials said Saturday. Other attacks outside Baghdad killed five Iraqis and a U.S. soldier, police said.
Police found the bodies of Ahmed Midhat al-Mahmoud, 22, a lawyer, and two of his bodyguards Saturday in the neighborhood of Azamiyah, said Hasan Sabri the head of the local council and Iraq's deputy justice minister, Busho Ibrahim Ali.
According to the AP, the killings came five months after the judge, Midhat al-Mahmoud, survived a suicide bomb attack against his home. The judge, a Shiite, heads the Supreme Judicial Council, a judicial supervisory body that swears in all judges and parliament, among other responsibilities.
The bodies of three other Iraqis who had been abducted and tortured were found in the capital Saturday, police said.
A U.S. Army soldier died in a roadside bombing south of Baghdad at 4 a.m., officials said.
In Mosul, gunmen shot dead Idrees Shihatha, a local tribal sheik, as he drove his car, said police Brig. Abdul-Hamid al-Jibouri. In another part of Mosul, a drive-by shooting killed four Iraqis and wounded one, al-Jibouri said.
