Six killed in gun raid on Iraq home

Gunmen have attacked a house south of Baghdad in an area which remains an al-Qaida stronghold, killing six people as they were sleeping in their home, Iraqi police said today.

An Interior Ministry official said those killed in the raid late last night included a policeman and a member of the Sahwa, or Sons of Iraq – the Sunni militia which battled al-Qaida at the peak of the war.