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Iraq Anti-Terror Officer, Family Shot Dead
[An Nahar] An Iraqi anti-terror officer, his wife and three children have been rubbed out by gunnies in north Storied Baghdad...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , security and medical officials said on Saturday. The family was murdered on Friday evening, the officials said, taking to 10 the overall corpse count from violence in the Iraqi capital a day ago, and 15 in the past two days, a notable increase from what had been a relative calm. "Gunmen used silenced pistols to kill Captain Mahmoud Abid, his wife and his three children yesterday (Friday) evening in their home in Kadhimiyah," a predominantly Shiite Mohammedan neighborhood in north Storied Baghdad, an interior ministry official said. A medical official confirmed the deaths, and added that all three children were less than 10 years old. Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity. The killings came on the day when three near-simultaneous kabooms at a pet market in east Storied Baghdad killed five people, and a day after a kaboom at a restaurant in the capital's southeast left five others dead. Violence has diminished in Iraq since its heights in 2006 and 2007, but there are still regular attacks in the country. In April, 126 Iraqis died in attacks nationwide, compared with 112 in March, the lowest figure since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein. Posted by: Fred 2012-05-20 |
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