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9 killed in Iraq's violence

03 September 2013 18:41 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Nine people were killed and seven others wounded in separate bombings and shootings in central and eastern Iraq on Tuesday, said the police, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

Unidentified gunmen broke into a house before dawn in the suburb of Arab Jubour in southern Baghdad and shot dead a man, his wife and their three sons, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

In a separate incident, two people were killed by gunmen in Doura district in southern Baghdad, the source said.

Meanwhile, a car bomb at a parking lot detonated in the town of Jbala, some 40 km south of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding four others, a local police source anonymously told Xinhua.

Jbala is part of the restive area, dubbed Triangle of Death, which is a hotbed of insurgency against the U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces. The town is one of a cluster of Sunni towns scattered north of Babil's provincial capital city of Hilla, about 100 km south of Baghdad.

In Iraq's eastern province of Diyala, a bomb attached to a civilian car detonated in the city of Maqdadiya, some 100 km northeast of Baghdad, wounding three people aboard, two of whom were off-duty policemen, a provincial police source said.

Iraq is witnessing its worst eruption of violence in recent years, which raises fears that the country is sliding back to full- blown civil conflict that peaked in 2006 and 2007, when monthly death toll sometimes exceeded 3,000.