Six killed in gun raid on Iraq home
Gunmen have attacked a house south of Baghdad in an area which remains an al-Qaida stronghold, killing six people as they were sleeping in their home, Iraqi police said today.
An Interior Ministry official said those killed in the raid late last night included a policeman and a member of the Sahwa, or Sons of Iraq – the Sunni militia which battled al-Qaida at the peak of the war.
The official and a village policeman said the gunmen broke into the house in Youssifiyah, just south of the capital, and shot members of two families who were living together. A woman, a girl and a young man also were injured in the raid.
The official and the policeman said the gunmen fled without being captured.
