13 Dead in Baghdad Violence

04 September 2013 | 22:07 Code : 1920860 Latest Headlines

(FNA)- Thirteen people, including an anti-Al-Qaeda militant and his family, were killed in shootings and a car bombing in Baghdad on Tuesday.

The worst incident occurred when gunmen stormed the house of a Sunni militia member opposed to the terror group in a Southern suburb, killing him, his wife and three children, RT reported.

Two others were shot dead in Baghdad's Southern Dora neighborhood, while four bodies with gunshot wounds to the back were found in different locations around the Iraqi capital, officials said.

Meanwhile, in the town of Jbala just South of the capital, a car bomb detonated near a restaurant, killing two people and wounding seven others.