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Two Die As Baghdad Liquor Store Bombed; Five-Year-Old Boy Among 11 Family Members Shot Dead

Posted on: Wednesday, 15 February 2006, 09:00 CST

A bomb blast which appears to have targeted a liquor shop in Baghdad killed three Iraqis on Wednesday. Two others were also wounded in the attack according to Iraqi police.

The liquor shop was reportedly destroyed and several surrounding buildings badly damaged, according to the AP. Similar attacks on liquor stores by religious groups have been frequent in Iraq.

Meanwhile, Iraqi police reported that a five-year old boy was among the eleven family members killed on Tuesday by gunmen in the town of Balad, north of the capital.

The family was reportedly rounded up and then shot dead by gunmen on a farm in the Shiite town, according to Reuters. The gunmen then escaped in the family's truck.

15-year-old Gazwan Hussein, whose father, Sheik Hussein Sarhan al- Hiyali, had been killed in the attack, was wounded but not killed.

He told reporters from his hospital bed, "When we arrived at the farm at about 8 a.m., we were ambushed by nine gunmen who were covering their faces. They told us to sit down. When my father tried to pull the pistol from the pickup truck, they opened fire immediately."

Also on Tuesday, US military sources reported that gunmen killed an Iraqi army major and his son near A-Taji, north of Baghdad. An Iraqi contractor working with the Iraqi army was also killed by gunmen in the town of Tikrit.

Elsewhere on Tuesday, a police colonel was wounded in a failed assassination attempt on his life by gunmen. The men reportedly opened fire on his car in the central Iraqi town of Baquba.

2006 Al Bawaba (www.albawaba.com)

Source: Al Bawaba

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