Gunmen try to shoot Iraqi cleric Sadr's spokesman

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Gunmen try to shoot Iraqi cleric Sadr's spokesman

Source: Reuters

BAGHDAD, May 14 (Reuters) - Gunmen attempted to kill a spokesman for influential Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in central Baghdad on Thursday, Iraqi police and an official from Sadr's movement said.

Abdul Jabbar Wahid al-Hajami, one of Sadr's senior media officials, was travelling to the offices of a newspaper put out by Sadr on Thursday morning when gunmen in a pickup truck approached and fired automatic weapons at the car, police said.

The vehicle's driver was killed, and one of Hajami's associates was seriously wounded, said Mohammed Hassan, another media official in Sadr's political movement.

Hajami himself was unharmed.

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