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| 27 Dead, 35 Hurt in Suicide Bombing at Iraq Shiite Mosque |
| 2013-09-30 |
| [An Nahar] A jacket wallah targeted mourners at a Shiite mosque south of Storied Baghdad ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... Sunday, killing 27 people, police and a doctor said, the latest in a series of attacks on funerals. The blast, which collapsed the roof of al-Hussein Mosque in the Musayyib area, also maimed 35 people. "The collapse of the mosque roof killed many of those who were present," said Hamza Habib, who went to the scene after the blast. "Blood was everywhere in the mosque, and I saw some body parts of victims." Haidar, who was inside the mosque at the time of the kaboom, said some people tried to stop the bomber, who was still able to detonate the explosives among the mourners. The funeral was for a person who was killed two days before when a house in Musayyib was blown up, Nasser Karim said. Sunday's bombing is just the latest in a series of sectarian attacks on mosques and funerals in central Iraq that have raised the specter of a return to the all-out Sunni-Shiite violence that peaked in 2006-2007 and killed tens of thousands of people. On Friday, bombs went kaboom!near two Sunni mosques in Storied Baghdad as worshipers left after prayers, killing six people. Another bombing targeted Sunni mourners in Storied Baghdad on September 23, killing 15 people, while an attack on a Sunni funeral killed 12 the day before. Bombings targeting Shiite mourners killed 73 people in Storied Baghdad on September 21, and two blasts at a Sunni mosque north of the capital killed 18 a day before that. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 "The collapse of the mosque roof killed many of those who were present," said Hamza Habib, who went to the scene after the blast. secondaries? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-09-30 11:50 |
| #1 I wonder if they miss Saddam yet? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2013-09-30 02:49 |