MUMBAI: Unidentified gunmen killed an Indian pilgrim in trouble-torn Iraq on Tuesday. Usaid-ul-Haq Qadri, 37, from UPs Badayun, was travelling with his father and brother to Sulaimania town, around 300km from Baghdad when their car came under fire from an armed group. It was not known if the attackers were terrorists. We had covered half the distance of the destination when some gunmen suddenly stopped our car and started firing indiscriminately. The driver, who was also injured, speeded up and we reached a check post from where an ambulance was called. Usaid died in the attack while the driver has been hospitalized, said Mohammed ateef Qadri, brother of the deceased, on phone from Iraq. ateef said Usaids body is being brought to Baghdad where it will be buried on Wednesday. Usaid, Lateef, their father Abdul Hameed and two other Indian pilgrims were part of a group that left Mumbai for Iraq on February 25. They were scheduled to return to India next week. Though Iraq, especially Baghdad and other Sunni-dominated cities, have witnessed an upsurge in violence in recent months, rarely has an Indian pilgrim come under attack. Every year thousands of Indian Shia pilgrims visit Iraqi cities such as Karbala, Kazmein and Najaf, while a lesser number of Sunnis visit mainly Baghdad. as per TOI
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 05:46:52 +0000
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