14 persons killed in shootings and car bombing in Iraq
5 Sept 2013 4:55 AM IST
Shootings and a car bombing in and south of Baghdad killed 14 people on Tuesday, the latest deaths in a surge of sectarian killings and other violence this year, Iraqi officials said.
The deadliest attack came when gunmen stormed the house of a member of a Sunni militia opposed to al-Qaida, killing him and his wife and three children in a southern suburb of the capital, police and hospital officials said.
The militia, known as the Sahwa, helped US troops fight al-Qaida at the height of the war and since been a target for hard-line insurgents who consider them traitors.
Prominent Sahwa leader Wisam al-Hardan managed to escape unharmed an assassination attempt yesterday by two suicide bombers, but six of his bodyguards and a bystander were killed.
Elsewhere in Iraq on Tuesday, a car bomb blew up at a restaurant in the town of Jbala just south of the capital, killing two people and wounding seven others.
Gunmen shot two people dead in Baghdad's southern Dora neighbourhood.
The deadliest attack came when gunmen stormed the house of a member of a Sunni militia opposed to al-Qaida, killing him and his wife and three children in a southern suburb of the capital, police and hospital officials said.
The militia, known as the Sahwa, helped US troops fight al-Qaida at the height of the war and since been a target for hard-line insurgents who consider them traitors.
Prominent Sahwa leader Wisam al-Hardan managed to escape unharmed an assassination attempt yesterday by two suicide bombers, but six of his bodyguards and a bystander were killed.
Elsewhere in Iraq on Tuesday, a car bomb blew up at a restaurant in the town of Jbala just south of the capital, killing two people and wounding seven others.
Gunmen shot two people dead in Baghdad's southern Dora neighbourhood.
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