Iraqi vice president’s brother killed in Baghdad home

The brother of Iraq’s Sunni Arab vice president was killed early Monday in his Baghdad home, a government spokesman said.

Gen. Amir al-Hashimi, brother of Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi and an adviser in the Defense Ministry, was killed by unidentified gunmen wearing military uniforms in his home in north Baghdad, Brig. Qassim al-Moussawi said. Further details were not immediately available. (AP)