Saad Ali Hussein al-Bayati, the head of the Iraqi Oil Pipelines Company northern division, was killed by unidentified gunmen near the city of Kirkuk. He was a North Oil board member.
Bayati, a Sunni Arab originally from the Salahaddin province town of Sulayman Bek, was in his government-issued utility vehicle with a government licence plate.
It is unclear if the assassins targeted the vehicle because of the government plates or whether they were specifically after Bayati.
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