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25 killed by gunmen in Iraqi village
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-04-03 17:00
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BAGHDAD -?Militants killed 25 people after storming houses in a village in southern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said Saturday.
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Iraqi security forces have sealed off the scene and are searching the suspects in the area, the source added.
The victims apparently were families of government-backed Awakening Councils paramilitary groups, who turned their rifles against the al-Qaida network in Iraq after the latter exercised indiscriminate killings against both Shiite and Sunni Muslim communities.
The area is part of the volatile region of Hour Rajab, once a stronghold of al-Qaida militants after the US-led invasion in 2003.
