Gunmen in uniform slaughter Iraqi family

BAGHDAD (Reuters/AFP) - Gunmen wearing army uniforms stormed a house on Wednesday and killed six members of the same family, including two women and a teenage girl, in a rural area of Iraq, police said.
The women had their throats cut while the men were shot in the head in the attack in Tarmiya, 25 km north of Baghdad, which until recently was viewed as a stronghold of Al-Qaeda, police said. The motives for the killings were not immediately clear.
Attackers wearing uniforms killed 12 male members of the same family in a village west of Baghdad on Nov 16. That incident was attributed either to al Qaeda or a local tribal dispute.
Meanwhile, two bombs within minutes of each other exploded at a restaurant early Wednesday in Karbala, wounding at least 26 people, police and medical officials said.
The first bomb targeted diners inside the restaurant in the heart of the city, located 110 kilometres (69 miles) south of the capital Baghdad, causing several injuries, police said.
However, a second bomb minutes later, after an ambulance and medics had arrived to help the wounded, caused most of the casualties.
A senior health official for Karbala province told AFP that at least 26 people had been wounded in the attacks.