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| Gunmen Kill 5 Iraqi Women from Same Family |
| 2012-07-29 |
| [An Nahar] Gunmen rubbed out a women, her three daughters and her daughter-in-law in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Saturday evening, security and medical officials said. The women were killed at a house in Al-Shuhada area of Samarra, north of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... , after iftar, the meal in which Moslems end their daily fast during the holy month of Ramadan, a police lieutenant colonel said. The source said the gunnies were targeting the older woman's husband, Hamid Majid, who is the director of a school in Samarra, but that he was not there at the time. A medical source at Samarra hospital said it had received the bodies of five women who had been rubbed out. |
| Posted by:Fred |