BAGHDAD, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- Unidentified gunmen on Thursday killed five family members of a paramilitary Hashd Shaabi member in Iraq's capital Baghdad, an interior ministry source said.
Earlier in the day, a group of gunmen broke into the house of the Hashd Shaabi member in the al-Maalif district in southwestern Baghdad and opened fire on the family, seriously wounding him and killing five of his family members, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The security forces rushed to the scene after the attackers fled, the source said, adding an investigation into the incident has been launched.
Sporadic deadly attacks still occur in Iraq, although the security situation has improved since the Iraqi forces fully defeated the extremist militants of the Islamic State militant group across the country in late 2017. ■
