According to a police lieutenant colonel, the women were shot dead at a house in Al-Shuhada area of Samarra, about 132 kilometers (82 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, on Saturday evening.
The source said the gunmen were looking for the woman’s husband, Hamid Majid, the director of a school in Samarra, who was not home at the time.
A medical source at Samarra hospital confirmed the deaths.
The latest shooting in Samarra took place a few days after similar attacks and bombings killed over 100 people, including Iraqi security forces, in Baghdad, the provinces of Kirkuk, Diyala, Salahuddin and several other towns on July 23.
Samarra has also witnessed bomb attacks over the past few weeks.
On June 22, one person was killed and about a dozen others injured in a car bombing carried out in the city.
Only in June, at least 200 people were killed and scores of others injured in shootings and bomb attacks across Iraq.
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