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Iraq |
Family killed in Saddam's village |
2008-02-16 |
![]() The past two years witnessed hundreds of tit-for-tat sectarian killings, but they have decreased since last June. The security improvement has followed operations by US and Iraqi forces. A police official said the parents and a number of their children were killed, the only survivor being an eight-year-old child. A neighbour said the family were from the former leader's Bijat clan, which once dominated the government, but they had no political ties. "He was a simple businessman," the neighbour added about the slain father. The bodies were taken to a hospital in nearby Tikrit, where police said the victims had included a seven-year-old boy. |
Posted by:Fred |