Egypt's envoy was kidnapped over the weekend, and Bahrain's top envoy to Iraq was shot and injured on Tuesday.
Unknown gunmen on Tuesday attacked a convoy carrying Pakistan's ambassador to Iraq, the third attack on a senior foreign diplomat in less than a week. Egypt's envoy was kidnapped over the weekend, and Bahrain's top envoy to Iraq was shot and injured on Tuesday.
Pakistani diplomat Mohammed Younis Khan was not injured in the attack in Baghdad, but Islamabad announced it would pull him out of Iraq temporarily for security reasons.
Dawood al-Shamari, an eyewitness of the attack recalled the scene.
"There were two cars. One of them was carrying the Pakistani ambassador. They were chased by two cars which started firing at the Pakistani convoy."
Earlier on Tuesday, Bahrain's top diplomat in Iraq, Hassan Malallah became the second senior Arab envoy to be attacked there. He was shot on his way to work in western Baghdad. Iraqi Police Lieutenant A'dil witnessed his injury.
"I saw the Bahrain ambassador bleeding from his hand. I fired a shot into the air to gather our patrols. Then the ambassador was taken to hospital."
Also on Tuesday, unknown gunmen killed five civil servants in a drive-by shooting. They were shot while heading to work in western Baghdad.
Since the announcement of the new Iraqi government on April 28, more than 14-hundred people have been killed in insurgent attacks.
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