Six Iraqis of the same family were killed Wednesday inside their home in Baghdad, while five others were claimed including two soldiers in fresh attacks in Iraq, according to security and medical sources.

Six Iraqis of the same family were killed Wednesday inside their home in Baghdad, while five others were claimed including two soldiers in fresh attacks in Iraq, according to security and medical sources.

A source at the Interior Ministry told media outlets that "six people of one family, a man, his wife, a woman of their relatives and three children, were all killed with silenced weapons inside their home in the al-Shaab area" in the north-east of Baghdad.

Medical sources confirmed receiving the bodies of six victims, adding that children ages are between three and eight years.

In Baquba, a police officer said that unidentified gunmen assassinated two peasants in Miqdadiya, north-east of the city.

In another attack, Lieutenant Islam al-Jubouri indicated that "an employee of the Department of Agriculture in Nineveh was killed in an armed attack as he left his home in the Jerusalem neighborhood of eastern Mosul." Medical sources confirmed the death toll.

Another five workers were also injured in the Department of the Sunni Endowment in Diyala province in an armed attack while traveling in their car in Wajihiya area, northeast of Baquba.

Militants also attacked local government buildings in north Iraq on Wednesday with suicide bombers and mortar fire and clashed with soldiers, leaving 14 people dead, an army officer said.

Seven civilians, three soldiers and four militants were killed in the violence in the town of Hawijah, west of Kirkuk, army Staff Major General Mohammad Khalaf al-Dulaimi said.

One suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle near a police station while a second blew up another near a local administrative building.

Militants then targeted those structures and a local council building with mortar fire, and gunmen attacked, leading to clashes with soldiers.

Iraq has seen a heightened level of violence since the beginning of the year. Death tolls in Iraq have reached a level not seen since 2008, when the country was just emerging from a brutal sectarian conflict.