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Baghdad (AFP) April 5, 2011 At least nine people were slain in separate attacks in Iraq on Tuesday, including six members of the family of a university professor who died in an attack last year, security sources said. Gunmen burst into the home of the professor and killed six members of his extended family, security sources said. The professor's widow and two teenage daughters were also seriously wounded, a military source said, adding that the attack took place overnight in a southern district on the outskirts of Baghdad that is predominantly Sunni Arab. A police source said the dead were two girls aged four and 14, two boys aged six and nine, a man and a woman. They were all related, but their relation to the dead professor or to each other was not immediately clear, the sources said. Extended families in Iraq frequently live in the same home. "All the victims are from the family of a professor who was killed in a terrorist attack last year," the military source said. "The wounded women are the late professor's widow and two daughters, who were less than 20 years old," he added. Three more civilians were killed and seven others wounded in a suicide attack near Al-Bahaj, in northwestern Iraq, a police officer in the province of Nineveh said. Violence is down in Iraq from its peak in 2006 and 2007, but shootings, kidnappings for ransom and bombings remain common. Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has identified security as one of his top priorities but his national unity government remains deadlocked over appointments to key security portfolios. The number of Iraqis killed in violence in March was up by a quarter compared to the previous month, according to official figures.
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