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Lawyer, Shiites killed in deadly violence in Iraqi

A car bomb has ripped through a Shiite Muslim commemoration ceremony in a village in Iraq, killing 11 people and injuring 20.

In another attack, gunmen shot dead a lawyer, his judicial investigator son and six family members.

The attacks are the latest in a surge of unrest since the beginning of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, bringing to 88 the number of people killed so far this month.

In the deadliest incident on Wednesday, a vehicle packed with explosives ripped through a group of Shiite worshippers during a commemoration ceremony in Al-Tanmiyah village, around 50 kilometres southeast of Baghdad.

Most of the victims of the evening attack were men, the officials said.

It also sparked a large fire in a nearby market and damaged adjacent houses.

The gathering had been to mark the day Imam Ali, a central figure in Shiite Islam and the cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed, was wounded, days before his eventual death in 661 AD.

The blast struck just before the iftar meal that breaks the daily fast Muslims engage in during Ramadan.

Lawyer slain

An earlier shooting at the home of Khayrallah Shati, a lawyer in the town of Baiji, about 200 kilometres north of the capital, killed him, his wife, five sons and another relative who was staying with them.

“Khayrallah Shati, his wife and five sons, and a family guest staying with them, were killed early this morning in Baiji,” a police officer said.

“Gunmen raided his house and opened fire on the family… initial reports are that this is a terrorist attack, but the investigation is still ongoing.”

The officer said one of Shati’s sons was a judicial investigator.

An official in the main hospital in Salaheddin provincial capital Tikrit said the facility received eight bodies – seven men and a woman – all with multiple gunshot wounds.

Al Qaeda’s front group the Islamic State of Iraq said in July it was launching a “new military campaign aimed at recovering territory”.

An earlier message posted on various jihadist forums said the ISI would begin targeting judges and prosecutors, and try to help its prisoners break out of jails.

The latest violence brings the number of people killed in attacks in Iraq this month to at least 88, including 47 security forces members, according to an AFP tally based on security and medical sources.

While violence has decreased from its peak in 2006 and 2007, attacks remain common across Iraq. There were attacks on 27 of the 31 days in July.

SOURCE: ABC Radio Australia

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