Lone gunman kills

Press, 19 August 1978, Page 8

Lone gunman kills

NZPE-Reuter Bagdad! An Iraqi Embassy em-; ployefe in Tripoli, capital of: iLibya, was shot dead by a: lone gunman-in front of the; embassy on Thursday, the Iraqi News Agency has reported. It said the employee,; whom it named as Hussein Mohammed Ali. aged 50, was. hit by three bullets as he entered the embassy in the morning. He died minutes after being taken to a hospital. The gunman was arrested by Libyan eyewitnesses and embassv staff and was handed over to the Libyan security;

authorities, the agency said. The police did not identify the arrested man. The agency, which described the attack as treacherous and cowardly, said six shots were fired at Mr Mohammed Ali. His job at the embassy was not reported. Iraqi diplomats and embassies have been the targets of four other attacks in t’ne last two months in a surge of inter-Arat violence in foreign countries. The attacks have been seen as a consequence of a bitter underground fight between the Palestine Liberation Organisation and Iraqi-backed Palestinian radicals.