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21 villagers killed northeast of Baghdad

Gunmen overnight raided two homes in a Shiite village in strife-torn Diyala province dragged out 21 males and shot them execution style.

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BAQUBA: Gunmen overnight raided two homes in a mostly Shiite village in strife-torn Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, dragged out 21 males and shot them execution style, police said on Saturday.   

The bodies of the villagers, who came from two families in the village of Imam Mansour 75 kilometres northeast of Baghdad, were found early Saturday, police said. The youngest victim was 12.   

Police said the gunmen arrived in five cars late Friday and took the men to nearby fields and executed them. They also made off with valuables from the victims' houses.   

Like Baghdad, the mixed Diyala province is torn by sectarian strife, largely taking the form of attacks by Al-Qaeda affiliated insurgents on Shiite villagers.   

The attacks come in the wake of a serious escalation in the sectarian violence gripping the center of Iraq, following a massive bombing campaign in Baghdad that claimed the lives of more than 200 Shiites on Thursday.   

Shiite militiamen mounted revenge attacks against Sunni mosques in Baghdad on Friday. 

Four more corpses, meanwhile, were found by police around the provincial seat of Diyala.   

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