Bomb attacks in Iraq on Thursday killed 13 people, including 10 who died in a bomb attack on the home of two brothers who were policemen, medics and police said.
In the deadliest attack, a 4:00 am (0100 GMT) bombing in Mussayib, 60 kilometres (37 miles) south of Baghdad, struck the home of policemen Ahmed and Jihad Zuwaiyin as they and their families slept.
The explosion killed 10 members of the family — the two officers, their wives, and six children aged 10 or younger — a police officer in the Babil provincial capital Hilla and a doctor at Mussayib hospital said.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity.
The police officer said the blast was caused by several roadside-type bombs placed near the house’s outer walls, which destroyed it. Four people were wounded and six nearby houses were also damaged.
Mussayib, a predominantly Shia town, lies in a confessionally mixed region dubbed the Triangle of Death because of the frequency of attacks there during the worst of the insurgency that followed the US-led invasion of 2003.
In the northern ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, meanwhile, three people were killed and five others wounded by a bomb on a motorcycle parked near a primary school in the city centre, police Brigadier General Adil Zain al-Abidine said.
Kirkuk lies at the centre of a tract of disputed territory that is claimed by both the central government in Baghdad and authorities in Iraq’s autonomous northern Kurdish region.
