Four people killed, 5 injured in attack on house in Babel

BABEL / IraqiNews.com: A girl and her mother have been killed, along with 2 armed men and 5 others injured in different security incidents in Hilla city, the center of south Iraq’s Babel Province on Wednesday, a Babel security source reported. “A group of armed men have booby-trapped a house in northeast Hilla city, the center of Babel Province, that blew off, killing a women and her daughter, and wounding the husband and his 3 children, along with destroying the house completely,” the security source told IraqiNews.com news agency on Wednesday. In another incident, 2 armed men were killed when a bomb blew off inside their car in Iskandariya township, 50 km to the north of Hilla, the security source said, adding that the police have found 2 pistols, fixed with silencers and remote mobile devices inside the car. In another incident, the security source reported that 2 unknown gunmen have opened fire on the Mukhtar of Police district in Musayab township, 45 km to the north of Hilla, seriously injuring the man, who was driven to hospital for treatment. SKH (ST) 68