Armed men kills 11 family members in Baghdad

Eleven members of a family have been killed and three wounded by armed men who ambushed their minibus north-east of Baghdad.

Officials in the village of Baladruz, 50km northeast of Baghdad, say the family had come to visit relatives.

On their way back to the nearby town of Naharuwan, near Baghdad, they were intercepted by gunmen in two cars who forced their vehicle to stop and sprayed the minibus with bullets