Wife and two sons of Iraqi Sunni Arab cleric killed

Gunmen killed the wife and two sons of a Sunni Arab cleric north of Baghdad, while a baker was shot dead inside his bakery in the Iraqi capital, police said today.

The wife and sons of cleric Qassim Daham al-Hamdani, 44, were killed late yesterday in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, said Diyala police’s Joint Co-ordination Centre.