Al-Kakaie, 43, director of administration for the Kirkuk office of Kurdistan TV, a station affiliated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), was shot and killed by armed assailants as he was driving to work, according to colleagues and a KDP media official.
The shooting took place in the Hay al-Askari neighborhood of Kirkuk, where al-Kakaie lived, at around 8:30 in the morning, the sources said. Al-Kakaie died instantly. His driver, who was wounded in the attack, survived his injuries.