Gunmen kill 13 members of Shiite family in Iraq

Gunmen broke into the house of a Shiite family in the northeast of Baghdad killing 13 people, police said.

Gunmen broke into the house of a Shiite family northeast of Baghdad on Saturday, killing 13 people, police said.

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The attack happened in Buhriz, about 60 kilometers north of Baghdad.

Today's attack came despite an extraordinary daytime curfew in Diyala province and three other flashpoint, aimed at curbing a wave of sectarian vilence that has killed more than 140 people since the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra on Wednesday.

The shrine bombing triggered reprisals by Shiites against Sunni mosques and pushed the country to the brink of civil war.

Buhriz, a Sunni-insurgent stronghold, has seen repeated sectarian strife.