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A New Zealand passport holder has died after being shot in the disputed northern oil city of Kirkurk yesterday.
Abdul Sattar Taher Sharif, a Kurdish academic, had recently written an article in the Kurdish-language monthly Lizin criticising Kurdish leaders for not pushing harder for the city's incorporation into the autonomous Kurdish region.
The 74 year-old was shot dead by unknown gunmen at midday (10pm NZT) on a road just north of Kirkuk, assistant police chief Major General Torhan Yussef told AFP.
- NZ HERALD STAFF
