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8 family members among 14 shot dead in Baghdad
January 16, 2014
Baghdad (CNN) -- The bodies of 14 men shot dead and with some signs of torture were found in an area north of Baghdad on Thursday, police said.
The men were taken Wednesday by armed men in military uniforms who raided the mainly Sunni Arab town of Mashahda, police said. Iraq has been engulfed by sectarian violence for many months. According to police, eight of the men were from one family.
In other parts of the country, at least 11 people died Thursday in shootings and explosions, police said. The incidents occurred in Mosul, Ramadi, Tikrit, Baquba, as well as Baghdad, police said.
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January 16, 2014
Baghdad (CNN) -- The bodies of 14 men shot dead and with some signs of torture were found in an area north of Baghdad on Thursday, police said.
The men were taken Wednesday by armed men in military uniforms who raided the mainly Sunni Arab town of Mashahda, police said. Iraq has been engulfed by sectarian violence for many months. According to police, eight of the men were from one family.
In other parts of the country, at least 11 people died Thursday in shootings and explosions, police said. The incidents occurred in Mosul, Ramadi, Tikrit, Baquba, as well as Baghdad, police said.
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