BAGHDAD: Attacks in central Iraq killed 16 people on Tuesday, including six shot dead when gunmen stormed a house where a corpse was being ritually washed ahead of a funeral.
The violence, in restive Diyala province and an area known as the "Triangle of Death", is the latest in a surge in unrest that has left more than 4,000 people dead so far this year.
Authorities have sought to tackle the country's worst unrest since 2008 with wide-ranging operations targeting militants as well as tight traffic measures in the capital, but attacks have continued to rock many cities.
In Tuesday's deadliest attack, gunmen stormed a house in the town of Yusufiyah and killed six people, including two women, as they were ritually cleansing the body of a Sunni Arab man ahead of his funeral, a police officer and a doctor at a nearby hospital said.
Also among the victims was the dead man's son.
Two more people were killed and seven others were wounded in the nearby town of Latifiyah by a roadside bomb near a cafe
Yusufiyah and Latifiyah lie within a confessionally-mixed region south of Baghdad known as the "Triangle of Death" for the brutal violence in the area at the peak of Iraq's sectarian war.
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