(AINA) -- According to a report by Al-Masalah, an Iraqi news outlet, a security source in Baghdad confirmed on Saturday that on September 27 armed men assaulted a home in southwest Baghdad and killed an Assyrian family of four. The source told al-Masalah "Unidentified armed men assaulted a home belonging to a Christian family in the area of the al-Aamel neighborhood in southwest Baghdad and killed a mother and her three sons. The source, who requested anonymity, said "A security source surrounded the home while medical service cars transported the bodies to the bureau of Judicial Medicine.

Translated by Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi.