Gunmen Kill Shiite Family of 4 in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Gunmen killed a Shiite man and three of his relatives at their home in southern Baghdad, police said Monday. The men lined up a brother, two sisters, and their uncle against the wall in their home in Dora and shot each of them late Sunday, police Lt. Maithem Abdel-Razzaq said. The father of the family, a grocery shop owner, had been killed six months earlier by gunmen, he said.

The mother was out visiting relatives at the time of the attack, police said.

Sectarian violence has inflamed the capital, where execution-style killings have become common and hundreds of bodies have been found in the weeks since a Shiite shrine was bombed on Feb. 22.

Also in Dora, one of Baghdad’s most dangerous neighborhoods, drive-by shooters killed a police captain outside his home late Sunday, police said.

Early Monday, a car bomb exploded in the central district of Karradah, wounding two civilians, police said.