BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen raided two Shiite homes in Diyala province, a hotbed of Iraq's Sunni-Arab insurgency, and shot and killed 21 men in front of their relatives, police said Saturday.
The attack by suspected insurgents on Friday night targeted members of the al-Sawed Shiite tribe in the village of Balad Ruz, 45 miles northeast of Baghdad, a police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity to protect his own security, as officials often do in the increasingly volatile province.
He said police could not reach the remote village to collect the bodies and take them to a morgue until Saturday morning. The province, almost equally divided between Sunnis and Shiites, …
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