BAGHDAD, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- A leader of the Awakening Council group, a Sunni paramilitary group, and his son were killed and two of his female family members wounded in a bomb explosion in their house in west of Baghdad on Sunday, a local police source told Xinhua.
The incident occurred at about 12:30 p.m. (0930 GMT) when gunmen planted bombs in the house of the group leader in Abu Ghraib area, some 20 km west of Baghdad, the source said on condition of anonymity.
The blast destroyed parts of the house, the source said, adding that Iraqi security forces sealed off the scene.
The Awakening Council group, or al-Sahwa in Arabic, consists of armed groups, including some powerful anti-U.S. Sunni insurgent groups, who fought al-Qaida group militants in the Sunni Arab areas after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Insurgent attacks continue in the once volatile Sunni Arab area in west of Baghdad that stretches through Anbar province to Iraq's western borders with Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.
Earlier in the day, Iraqi police reported the killing of six family members and wounding of 14 people in another bomb attack in the town of Iskandriyah, some 50 km south of Baghdad.
Violence and sporadic attacks are still common in the Iraqi cities despite the dramatic decrease of violence over the past few years.
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