A series of bombings in Iraq has killed 12 people, including a soldier and his family.
Police officials said that in the deadliest of the attacks on Saturday two explosions in Muqdadiyah, 60 miles north of Baghdad, destroyed the home of a soldier, killing him, his wife, his two daughters and two sons as they were sleeping.
A car bomb in a commercial street in Baghdad's western district of Amariyah killed four people and wounded 12 others.
Also, in western Baghdad, a bomb near an outdoor market in the Sadiyah neighbourhood killed two shoppers and wounded six.
Nobody claimed responsibility for Saturday's attacks but local officials blamed al-Qaida in Iraq.