11 DEAD IN ATTACKS ON THE SONS OF IRAQ SUNNI MILITIA
Baku, June 10 (AZERTAC). At least 11 people have been killed in Iraq in a wave of attacks on people who have opposed insurgents, police say. The bombings and shootings happened in a number of places across the country, and targeted police officers and a militia group. Many of the attacks were targeted at the Sunni militia known as the Shawa or Sons of Iraq. Victims of the attacks included a Sunni Imam from the Shawa militia and two of his sons, who were killed by gunmen in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad. A bomb rigged with bags of ball bearings killed three civilians in a Baghdad shopping district. Also among the dead was a Christian man, shot 15 times in a drive-by attack on a street in the northern city of Kirkuk.
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