(KUNA) -- Unidentified gunmen stormed a house in Al-Jihad suburb in west Baghdad and opened fire at a group of people who were invited for lunch killing two and wounding 13 others, the source told KUNA. The source added that all the victims were believed to be security guards who worked in the conferences palace in the green zone. Police rushed to scene and began an investigation.Furthermore, eight Iraqis were wounded earlier today when a series of bombs went off in a market in Al-mahmoudia town south of here. A security source said that initial reports showed that four mortar shells fell at 7:45 p.m. on the market leaving eight shoppers seriously wounded.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi armed forces general command had earlier warned flat owners to assure identity of any suspicious persons seeking to rent their apparatus as they tend to booby-trapped them to target markets and congregations.
On the other hand, unidentified gunmen attacked today the resting places of Imams Ways, Sayyed bin Bander Al-Sumaidei and Ibrahim Al-Sameen near Al-Miqdadiyah within the framework of series of blasts in this nature. AL-Miqdadiyah security sources said in statements that unidentified gunmen detonated the resting places of the Imams by using explosives that were planted inside them.
Iraqi police in Kirkuk announced apprehension of six suspects in a Kirkuk suburb north of Baghdad. It added that the six admitted they had carried out terrorist activities in Kirkuk.