Baghdad - A family of six was among the 11 people killed in a series of bloody attacks across Iraq on Wednesday. Men wearing the uniforms of Iraqi security forces burst into the family's home in the district of al-Tarmiya, north of Baghdad, early on Wednesday morning, and killed them all, Iraq's Yaqin News Agency reported.
Police told the news agency that the culprits had also planted explosives around the family's house.
In Karbala, some 120 kilometres south of Baghdad, at least five people were killed and 46 injured when two bombs exploded in the central Iraqi city of Karbala on Wednesday, doctors told the German Press Agency dpa.
Witnesses said the first bomb badly damaged a restaurant on Karbala's Jamaiya Street where soldiers often gather for breakfast before work at a nearby military base.
Minutes later, a second bomb rigged to a bicycle exploded just outside the restaurant, witnesses said.
Karbala is the site of important Shiite religious shrines. Five people were killed and 15 injured in a November 1 bomb attack in the city's al-Naqib district.
