Two engineers killed in attack on Iraq gas field

AFP , Tuesday 2 Apr 2013

Camp near gas field attacked in Iraq late Monday, killing two engineers

 

Gunmen killed two Iraqi engineers, wounded one and kidnapped another when they attacked a camp near a gas field run by a South Korean firm in Iraq's western desert, officials said on Tuesday.

The attack on the camp, for workers contracted by KOGAS to work on the Akkaz field, occurred at around 10:00 pm (1900 GMT) on Monday, according to Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed al-Khafaji, the chief of police in the town of Qaim along the Iraq-Syria border.

Mustafa Shawqi, a doctor at Qaim's hospital, confirmed the toll.

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