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Former civic body official and family killed
A former city official was stabbed to death along with his wife and daughter in their home in a predominantly Shiite neighbourhood in northeastern Baghdad.
- AP
- Published: 22:15 January 27, 2008
- Image Credit: Reuters
- Women cry outside the house of Ahmad, their neighbour, killed by gunmen in Baghdad.
Baghdad: A former city official was stabbed to death along with his wife and daughter in their home in a predominantly Shiite neighbourhood in northeastern Baghdad.
The knife-wielding attackers stormed the two-storey house late on Saturday, killing Ahmad Jwad Hashem, his wife and their daughter, and leaving a visiting nephew seriously wounded, according to police and hospital officials.
Neighbours gathered outside the white clapboard doors and trim bushes surrounding the house told AP Television News that Hashem, a Shiite engineer from Karbala, had been the director-general of the Baghdad municipality office until he retired about four months ago.
The slaughter occurred in Talbiyah, a middle-class neighbourhood on the fringes of Sadr City.
Gunmen ambushed a minibus carrying five female university employees to work on Sunday in southeastern Baghdad, seizing the driver.
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