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Summary Attacks in Iraq killed 15 people Thursday, including 4 a family who were murdered with knives.
Militants attacked the house of a Turkmen family in Kirkuk in northern Iraq, killing a father, mother and two daughters with knives.An AFP journalist at the scene said that the bodies of the husband and wife were in one room, and the two daughters in another. Blood was everywhere.A police source said that nothing was stolen, and that it appeared to be a revenge attack.Gunmen also shot dead four police in Tikrit, north of Baghdad, while three members of the Sahwa anti-Qaeda militia were killed by a bomb near Balad, also north of the capital, security and medical officials said.An army officer said that gunmen also attacked a checkpoint near Dujail, also north of Baghdad, killing a soldier and kidnapping four others.The latest violence comes a day after official figures put the number of people killed in attacks in July at 325, the highest monthly death toll since August 2010.
