http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/27/iraq.main/index.htmlBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's transitional National Assembly suffered a difficult setback Wednesday when gunmen shot and killed a lawmaker on her doorstep -- the first assembly member assassinated since the entity was voted into power on January 30.
Lamee'a Abd Khidawi, a member of outgoing interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's legislative bloc, was shot to death when she answered the door to her house, Baghdad emergency police said. No one has yet claimed responsibility.
The slaying follows recent unsuccessful assassination attempts on two other assembly members -- Mish'an al-Jabouri, near Tikrit; and Allawi, in Baghdad.
There is not a clear procedure to fill a vacant National Assembly seat.
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