The suicide attack targeted Taleb al-Obeidi, leader of an anti-Al-Qaeda militia in the Sunni Bouslabi area near Duluya, 90 kilometres (56 miles) north of the Iraqi capital, killing six family members.

The bomber detonated his explosives-laden belt while the family was in the garden of their home, killing the militia leader himself, two of his wives and three of his children, the source said.

Also, near the Shaab stadium in the north of the capital, Tahsin Jamal Abdullah, an oil ministry technician, was killed by unknown assailants who shot him with a pistol equipped a silencer, an interior ministry source said.

In another attack, Colonel Maher Abdel Hassan Younis was shot in the same circumstances in his car in the northern Baghdad suburb of Kadhimiyah.

Earlier Sunday, two bombs in central Baghdad killed a civilian and wounded seven.

Violence across Iraq has fallen dramatically since its peak in 2006-2007, but bomb attacks and kidnappings remain common.

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