BAGHDAD – Two days of violence in Iraq killed 19 people, including six family members shot dead while returning from a wedding, police officers and doctors said on Monday.



In Madain, south of Baghdad, a bomb exploded near a football field inside a sports club on Monday, killing at least five people.



And gunmen attacked a checkpoint on a highway in northern Iraq, sparking clashes that killed three anti-Al-Qaeda fighters and two militants.



A car bomb in the northern city of Mosul also killed one person and wounded four.



On Sunday night, gunmen killed a policeman, his father, his wife and three children as they drove south of Baghdad on their way back from a wedding.



And gunmen shot dead two police in an attack on a checkpoint in Tikrit, north of the capital.



With the latest violence, over 180 people have been killed in unrest in the first eight days of July — far more than in the whole month of December, according to figures based on security and medical sources. – AFP