Gunmen shot dead five members of a family in an attack on their house near Mosul, Iraq late Wednesday, police and hospital sources said on Thursday.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, however, a statement from the interior ministry linked the attack to the Islamic State (IS) militants, Reuters reports.
The gunmen attacked the house of a village community supervisor in Hammam al-Alil, south of Mosul.
They killed the supervisor, his two sons, his nephew and his mother, and wounded two others.
In another incident, gunmen attacked a grain silo in Shirqat, Iraq on Thursday, killing a guard and setting a vehicle ablaze.
