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| A suicide bomber has attacked a mosque north of Baghdad during a ceremony for a Shia holy festival, killing at least eight people, Iraqi police say. | |
| The bomb exploded as worshippers gathered at the mosque in Baquba, about 65km (40 miles) north of Baghdad. | The bomb exploded as worshippers gathered at the mosque in Baquba, about 65km (40 miles) north of Baghdad. |
| The attack came the day after a woman blew herself up near a Shia mosque in Diyala province, killing 11 people. | The attack came the day after a woman blew herself up near a Shia mosque in Diyala province, killing 11 people. |
| The Ashura festival in Iraq has in recent years regularly been blighted by attacks blamed on Sunni radicals. | The Ashura festival in Iraq has in recent years regularly been blighted by attacks blamed on Sunni radicals. |
| The latest attack occurred as devotees were about to begin a procession down the street, police Lieutenant-Colonel Najim al-Soumaidaie told the AFP news agency. | |
| "The suicide bomber detonated his explosives as people were leaving the mosque," he said "At least eight people were killed and we have 15 wounded." | |
| Ashura commemorates the killing of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the southern Iraqi city of Karbala, by the armies of Sunni caliph Yazid in 680AD. |