Officials Report Massacre in Diyala

BAGHDAD — Dozens of Shiite villagers in the North were massacred by Sunni extremists, two officials said yesterday, while a car bomb exploded across the street from the Iranian Embassy in the heart of Baghdad and killed four civilians. Police Colonel Ragheb Radhi al-Omairi said 29 members of a Shiite tribe were massacred overnight in Diyala province when dozens of suspected Sunni gunmen raided their village near Muqdadiyah. The dead included four women, Colonel Omairi said.