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Media: AFP
Byline: n/a
Date: 14 October 2006
BAGHDAD - Gunmen murdered a family of 10, including five women and three
children, just outside Baghdad, an Iraqi army official said Saturday, as
violence raged around the country.
Late on Friday night, gunmen attacked a farm house in Saifiyah, a restive
rural area south of the capital and killed the entire family.
The area has long been a scene of internecine communal violence and many of
the town's men had already fled for fear of their lives.
Iraqi police found the corpses of 14 murder victims scattered around the
city of Baghdad between dawn on Friday and Saturday, many of them riddled
with bullets and showing signs of torture.
Just downstream from the capital, in the village of Suweira, another four
bodies were fished out of the Tigris, all lacking their heads.
While bombs explode during the day in the beleaguered capital, shadowy
death squads prowl the city at night, killing Iraqis from rival religious
communities and leaving their tortured bodies to be found in the morning.
The grim daily toll of corpses increased during the Muslim holy month of
Ramadan, in what a US military spokesman described as a "tremendous spike"
in violence.
Most of the killings have been laid at the feet of Shiite death squads,
many with links to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's mahdi Army militia. On
Friday the preacher denounced groups carrying out such killings in his
name.
In other Baghdad violence, two members of the National Police were wounded
when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol on Saturday.
In the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Abu Chir, a constant scene of
violence, five members of a family were wounded when a mortar round crashed
down on their house.
Alongside the sectarian killings, mortar duels between rival neighborhoods
have taken their own toll on Baghdad residents.
In Diyala province, northeast of the capital, the Iraqi army reported that
six gunmen and a female bystander were killed in a clash with US and Iraqi
forces southwest of the provincial capital of Baquba.
Two civilians were also killed by gunmen in Baquba itself and a shopkeeper
was shot dead in the central city of Samarra.
Gunmen killed a teacher in the southern city of Diwaniyah in a drive-by
shooting, said police, adding that they did not know why.
Revenge was apparently the motive when a Baathist official with the former
regime was dragged from his house on Saturday morning by gunmen in the
southern city of Amara. His body was later found near the bus station, said
police.
Byline: n/a
Date: 14 October 2006
BAGHDAD - Gunmen murdered a family of 10, including five women and three
children, just outside Baghdad, an Iraqi army official said Saturday, as
violence raged around the country.
Late on Friday night, gunmen attacked a farm house in Saifiyah, a restive
rural area south of the capital and killed the entire family.
The area has long been a scene of internecine communal violence and many of
the town's men had already fled for fear of their lives.
Iraqi police found the corpses of 14 murder victims scattered around the
city of Baghdad between dawn on Friday and Saturday, many of them riddled
with bullets and showing signs of torture.
Just downstream from the capital, in the village of Suweira, another four
bodies were fished out of the Tigris, all lacking their heads.
While bombs explode during the day in the beleaguered capital, shadowy
death squads prowl the city at night, killing Iraqis from rival religious
communities and leaving their tortured bodies to be found in the morning.
The grim daily toll of corpses increased during the Muslim holy month of
Ramadan, in what a US military spokesman described as a "tremendous spike"
in violence.
Most of the killings have been laid at the feet of Shiite death squads,
many with links to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's mahdi Army militia. On
Friday the preacher denounced groups carrying out such killings in his
name.
In other Baghdad violence, two members of the National Police were wounded
when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol on Saturday.
In the southern Baghdad neighborhood of Abu Chir, a constant scene of
violence, five members of a family were wounded when a mortar round crashed
down on their house.
Alongside the sectarian killings, mortar duels between rival neighborhoods
have taken their own toll on Baghdad residents.
In Diyala province, northeast of the capital, the Iraqi army reported that
six gunmen and a female bystander were killed in a clash with US and Iraqi
forces southwest of the provincial capital of Baquba.
Two civilians were also killed by gunmen in Baquba itself and a shopkeeper
was shot dead in the central city of Samarra.
Gunmen killed a teacher in the southern city of Diwaniyah in a drive-by
shooting, said police, adding that they did not know why.
Revenge was apparently the motive when a Baathist official with the former
regime was dragged from his house on Saturday morning by gunmen in the
southern city of Amara. His body was later found near the bus station, said
police.