Attacks kill 7 in Iraq, including MP candidate

By Sameer Yacoub

Published February 7, 2014 7:20pm ET

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Attacks kill 7 in Iraq, including MP candidate — In this picture taken on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, Iraqi security forces patrol at Malaab district, which Iraqi troops recaptured recently, in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. Al-Qaida-led militants are battling for control of mainly Sunni areas to the west of the Iraqi capital in a key test of the Shiite-led government's ability to maintain security in the country more than two years after the withdrawal of U.S. troops. (AP Photo) | AP

BAGHDAD (AP) — Gunmen in Iraq shot to death a Shiite politician running for parliament in the upcoming elections in April, one of seven people killed in attacks across the country on Friday, officials said.

Hamza al-Shimmari, who was on the list of the Ahrar party — which is loyal to firebrand Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr — for the April 30 vote, was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad’s western Ghazaliyah neighborhood, police officials said.

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