BAGHDAD: A Sunni tribal leader, his son and seven bodyguards were killed in Baghdad, a cousin told Agence France-Presse on Saturday (Sunday in Manila), in an attack that could inflame sectarian tension in Iraq.

Sheikh Qassem Sweidan al-Janabi and most of his bodyguards were shot in the head, while son was killed by a bullet to the chest, said Abu Qusay, speaking from the cemetery where they were buried.

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