Iraq: 42 people killed and 63 wounded in a wave of attacks
At least 42 people were killed and 63 wounded in violent attacks in Iraq Sunday, government sources said.
Up to 30 people were killed and about 40 wounded in a suicide bombing attack at a mosque in Mussaiyb town, 50 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad Sunday, police said.
A suicide bomber blew himself up before sunset at a funeral held at al-Hussien mosque in Mussaiyb, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Meanwhile, up to six people were killed in a series of explosions in the city of Arbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous region of Kurdistan Sunday, a Kurdish official said.