US aircraft reportedly bombed houses near the west Baghdad office of a leading member of a key Sunni political bloc at 2am yesterday, killing four members of a family and wounding a guard at the house of former Shiite member of parliament, police said.
The US military said it was checking the report.
The attack hit residences near the offices of Saleh al-Mutlaq, a senior Sunni Arab politician of the National Dialogue Front.
It was also the home of Salama al-Khafaji, a former Shiite parliamentarian who abandoned her residence after escaping an assassination attempt last year.
The wounded guard was watching her home, a police official in the Khadra district said on condition of anonymity because he feared for his safety.
A series of 16 explosions, apparently from large mortar rounds, rang out in central Baghdad before sunrise yesterday, but there was no word on any casualties.
There was still a relative lull in the bombings and assassinations that have threatened to rip Iraq apart along sectarian seams in recent months.
Police reported finding 12 bodies that had been dumped in Baghdad on Sunday as well as 12 other violent deaths nationwide, both relatively low numbers by recent standards.
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