12-year-old orphaned in continuing Iraqi violence

THREE shootings killed four people across Iraq yesterday, including one attack in the capital that left a young girl wounded and her parents dead.

Police said gunmen killed the 12-year-old’s mother and father, a pharmacist, late Wednesday in west Baghdad. The girl was lightly injured and was picked up by relatives, said Dr. Muhannad Jawad of the Yarmouk Hospital.

Fifty American soldiers have been killed in the past three weeks, while leaders from the country’s disparate groups have huddled together to write the new constitution supposed to be complete by Monday.