Gunmen kill three family members in Baghdad

Gunmen in police uniforms shot dead three family members in their house in Baghdad early on Sunday, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.

"Unidentified gunmen wearing police uniforms at dawn broke into a house in Baghdad's southwestern district of Baiyaa, and shot dead a man, his wife and their son," the source said on condition of anonymity.

Iraqi security forces sealed off the area and launched investigation into the incident, while troops conducted search operation looking for suspects, the source said.

In a separate incident, a roadside bomb went off in Karrada district in central Baghdad, wounding three civilians, the source added.

Also in the morning, a mortar round struck a house in Alawi area in downtown the capital, damaging the house and nearby buildings without causing human casualties, he said.

Violence and sporadic high-profile bomb attacks continue in the Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease of violence over the last three years.

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