By DPA
Baghdad : Seven civilians were killed in separate incidents of violence in Iraq Thursday, according to security sources and media reports.
In Arbil, in the northern Kurdish region, city police department chief Abdel-Khaleq Talaat told reporters that an element belonging to the Kurdish Peshmerga forces shot at a family, killing four of them on the spot and wounding two.
Talaat described the Peshmerga militant as “mentally deranged.” The militant had stormed into the family’s home and opened fire.
In another incident, three members of another family were killed when a bomb went off near their residence in Zafaraniyah, southern Baghdad, Voices of Iraq news agency reported citing police sources. Four people were injured, it said.
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