Ibrahim, center, 12, and his brother Najah, right, mourn during the funeral of their father Fadel Awda, yesterday at Baghdad's Muslim Shiite Sadr City neighborhood. The body of Awda, a member of the municipal council in Sadr City, was found after he had been kidnapped by gunmen from his home in the area, sources at the interior ministry said. The kidnapping and killing of Shiites and Iraqi security force members is an almost daily occurrence in the area.
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