Gunmen kidnap Turkmen physician in the city of Kerkuk

On Monday morning, Adwal Ali, a physician from the Iraqi Turkoman minority, was kidnapped by three gunmen in front of his house in al-Mu'alimeen district in central city of Kirkuk, some 250 km north of Baghdad, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Also on Monday, gunmen kidnapped an 11-year-old boy near his house at a village near the city of al-Hawijah, some 50 km southwest of Kirkuk city, the source said without giving further details about the incident.

Earlier in the day, the police reported the killing of two people and the wounding of 13 others in separate attacks in Baghdad on Monday morning, including an attack on a convoy of a foreign security firm guarding French embassy vehicles that wounded four Iraqi guards and three civilians.