The leader of the Iraqi Hezbollah resistance group was assassinated in the southern Iraqi city of Basra according to local police sources and social media activists.
“Bassem Al-Moussawi, the secretary-general of [Iraq’s] Hezbollah, was killed when unidentified assailants opened fire on his car in Basra province’s Al-Hayyaniya district,” the Basra police force spokesman, Major Jumaa Al-Hamrani, told Turkish state-run Anadolu.
An associate of Al-Mousawi was injured in the attack, after which the gunmen fled the scene, Al-Hamrani said.
No group has yet has claimed responsibility for the assassination.
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