27 killed, 77 wounded in separate attacks across Iraq

At least 27 people were killed and 77 others wounded in separate violent attacks across Iraq on Saturday, including a bombing attack against a Sunni mosque in the capital city, police said.

A roadside bomb went off on Saturday evening near the Khalid bin Alwalead Mosque in the Dora area in southern Baghdad, killing at least 13 people and injuring 30 others, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

Another roadside bomb killed two people and wounded three others in Madain, some 30 km south of Baghdad, the source added.

Also on Saturday evening, four people were killed and 13 others wounded when a suicide car bomb attacked a funeral in the village of Zahra, some 75 km northeast of Baghdad, he said.

A car bomb exploded near a football playground late Saturday evening in the Al-Jamiaa district in western Baghdad, killing three people and injuring 15 others, most of them were young men, an interior ministry source told Xinhua.

Earlier in the day, five people were killed and 16 others wounded in separate bombings and shootings across Iraq, according to other police sources.

In the eastern province of Diyala, two people were killed and nine wounded, including three children, when a roadside bomb went off near a house in the town of Maqdadiyah, some 100 km northeast of Baghdad, a provincial police source told Xinhua. 

In a separate incident, two fighters of the government-backed Sahwa paramilitary group were wounded when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle near the town of Hibhib, about 80 km northeast of Baghdad, the source said. 

The Sahwa militia, also known as the Awakening Council or the Sons of Iraq, include some former anti-U.S. insurgent groups, who turned their rifles against the al-Qaida network after the latter exercised indiscriminate killings against both Shiite and Sunni Muslim communities. 

High-profile bomb attacks are still common in Iraq despite the dramatic decrease since their peak in 2006 and 2007, when the country was engulfed in sectarian killings.

A total of at least 120 people were killed and more than 200 others wounded in waves of violent attacks across Iraq during the past three days. 

Source: ANTARA