Iraq: Bomb kills police captain's wife and 4 children

BAGHDAD (AFP) — A car bomb has killed the wife and four children of a policeman in central Iraq, a day after 113 people died in the country's deadliest day in two and half years, police and medics said.

"Around 10 pm (1900 GMT), a car bomb blew up in the garage of the home of a police captain," said a police officer in Salaheddin province.

"While the police captain had gone out with one of his sons, a terrorist parked the booby-trapped vehicle in the garage, the door of which had been left open.

"Four of his children and his wife were killed, and four neighbours wounded," the officer said, adding that all the children were less than 10 years old.

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