Sheikh Yasser al-Mudhafar Assassinated in Najaf
Najaf, Jan 26, (VOI)- Unknown gunmen shot dead a sheikh from the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr’s movement in the Shiite sacred city of Najaf, a police source said on Saturday.
“Unknown gunmen shot and killed Sheikh Yasser al-Mudhafar, last night, outside his house in al-Jamiyah quarter in northern Najaf,” the source, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq- Voices of Iraq- (VOI).
The source gave no further details.
Meanwhile, a key figure from the Sadr’s movement told VOI “the al-Mudhafar assassination came within a series of attacks targeting the symbols of the Sadrist movement.”
Editor’s note: This is Aswat al Iraq’s English language version of the report posted immediately below here: اغتيال احد شيوخ التيار الصدري في النجف
Indexed under: Assassinations, Najaf, Sadrist Bloc