Former student held after two Iraq professors killed

• Two Iraqi university professors gunned down in Arbil, prompting the arrest of a disgruntled former student.
• A Soran University engineering professor was shot dead in his home and the dean of Salaheddin University’s law faculty killed on campus.
• Police believe the shooter did not originally intend to kill the engineering professor, but rather his wife.

Two Iraq university professors were gunned down in the Kurdish regional capital Arbil on Tuesday, prompting the arrest of a disgruntled former student, Authorities said.

Shootings as a means of settling scores are far from uncommon in Iraq, where the country’s 40 million people own 7.6 million firearms as a result of the country’s legacy of war and sectarianism.

A Soran University engineering professor was shot dead in his home in the early hours, and the dean of the Salaheddin University law faculty, Kawan Ismail, was killed on campus shortly afterward, provincial governor Omed Khoshnaw told reporters.

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Police believe the shooter did not originally intend to kill the engineering professor, but rather his wife, who is a law professor at the same university and was away from home at the time, Khosnaw said.

According to the governor, the suspect was expelled from Soran University by the first victim’s wife and then denied admission to Salaheddin University by the second victim.

He had previously been arrested several times for making death threats against the second victim, whose bodyguard was also injured in the attack.

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