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BAGHDAD — The head of the Iraqi parliament’s largest Sunni Arab bloc was gunned down by a teenager Friday after delivering an afternoon prayer sermon.
Harith Obeidi, who led the Iraqi Accordance Front bloc in parliament, was shot twice in the head by the 15-year-old boy. The boy then opened fire on the lawmaker’s bodyguard and lobbed a hand grenade, a police official said.
Mosque guards gunned him down, but not before he had killed five people, including Obeidi, and wounded 12 more, the official said.
