A boy looks at the bloodied interior of a vehicle after Baghdad's deputy police chief Amer Nayef and his son, also a police officer, were shot dead early Monday. (Sabah Arar / AFP-Getty Images)

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The deputy police chief of Baghdad and his son, also a police officer, were shot dead Monday. Brig. Amer Ali Nayef and his son, Lt. Khalid Amer, were assassinated in Baghdad’s south Dora district while traveling in a car on their way to work, said a spokesman for the interior ministry, Capt. Ahmed Ismail.

Gunmen sprayed machine-gun fire from two cars which were driving parallel with the police chief’s vehicle before fleeing the scene of the attack close to his home, police said. The two were alone in their car.

• Last week, gunmen shot dead the governor of Baghdad, Ali al-Haidari, and six of his bodyguards.

• An Associated Press photographer saw a number of bodies inside the courtyard that was cordoned off by police.