Governor killed

Attackers killed the governor of the Iraqi city of Mosul yesterday as he was driving in a convoy of vehicles towards Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

The assailants threw a grenade at the governor's vehicle and fired automatic weapons, the source said.

"He was on his way to Baghdad with a security escort of four cars, when the attackers in another car pulled up beside his vehicle and threw a grenade, and then shot at his car," said the source, who declined to be named.

Iraqi officials have frequently been targeted for assassination by insurgents battling US-led troops and Iraqi security forces in the country.