A SUICIDE bomber has killed at least 13 people at a Shi'ite mosque
north of Baghdad, after three other attacks leave eight dead,
broadcaster Al-Jazeera reports.
Saturday's attack during evening prayers left 25 people wounded. The
suspected bomber was believed to have set off an explosive belt.
Eight people including a suicide bomber were killed earlier on
Saturday in two separate attacks targeting police in northern Iraq,
security officials said.
A car bomb was detonated by a suicide driver at security checkpoint in
Mosul, 400km north of Baghdad, killing five people and wounding 15.
In Kirkuk, 250km north the capital, gunmen killed three police
officers and wounded a fourth.
Iraq has seen a surge in violence in recent months amid mass protests
by minority Sunni Muslims against Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's
Shi'ite-led government.The United Nations reported 1045 people, mostly
civilians and police, were killed in May in Iraq, making it the
deadliest month in the country since 2008, according to the United
Nations.
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