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.