The North Oil Company of Iraq lost a high-level staff member Monday evening when a group of unidentified militants gunned him down in Kirkuk, according to a police official quoted by Rudaw. “At around 7pm tonight, a number of unidentified gunmen fired on Ahmed Abid Mutlak, head of the mechanic department from the North Oil Company,” the source said, noting that “the reason for killing Mutlak remains unknown.” So far, no terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Rudaw’s source added that the “gunmen fled to an unknown place using a Toyota Camry vehicle.” A police investigation is ongoing, though no arrests related to the murder have been made. The NOC is a state-run oil company operated by the Iraqi Oil Ministry. It controls production in the Kirkuk, Nineveh, Erbil, Baghdad and Diyala provinces and also works in parts of HIlla and Kut. The Oil Ministry reported 98.3 […]