Perspective: Two Families From Different Sects Meet Similar, Violent Fates in Iraq

BAGHDAD, Dec. 11 -- Twenty armed men entered the Subhi family home in southern Kirkuk at dawn Monday, killing a 12-year-old boy, his 13-year-old sister and their pregnant mother, police said.

The al-Jubori family met a similar fate on Sunday when gunmen opened fire on their minibus in Muqdadiyah, northeast of Baghdad. Among the dead were two children, ages 3 and 4, police and two relatives said.

The Subhi family is Shiite. The Jubori family is Sunni.

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