IRAQ: At least nine people are killed in a suicide bomb attack on a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad

Record ID: 358200

  • Title: IRAQ: At least nine people are killed in a suicide bomb attack on a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad
  • Date: 25th August 2014
  • Summary: BAGHDAD, IRAQ (AUGUST 25, 2014) (REUTERS) MINARET OF MOSQUE/ KNOCKED DOWN DOOR AND SECURITY FORCES NEARBY "IMAM ALI , PEACE BE UPON HIM MOSQUE " WRITTEN ON BLUE TILE ON TOP OF MOSQUE ENTRANCE
  • Embargoed: 9th September 2014 13:00
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  • Location: Iraq
  • Country: Iraq
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA2NBEPDDU2RZMRDFL2DJK85ZEK
  • Story Text: A suicide bomb attack in a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Monday (August 25) killed at least nine people and wounded 21, police and medical sources said.
    The attacker detonated his suicide bomb vest inside the mosque in the New Baghdad district of the capital at prayer time, police said.
    Up to 31 people were wounded in the attack that took place at noon prayer in the Imam Ali Shi'ite Mosque in the predominantly Shi'ite neighbourhood.
    The attack comes only three days after Shi'ite militiamen machine-gunned 68 worshipers at a village mosque in Diyala Province .
    An advance by Islamic State through northern Iraq has alarmed the Baghdad government and its Western allies and drawn U.S. airstrikes in Iraq for the first time since the withdrawal of American troops in 2011.
    Although the air campaign has caused a few setbacks for Islamic State, they do not address the far broader problem of sectarian warfare which the group has fuelled with attacks on Shi'ites.
    Bombings, kidnappings and execution-style shootings occur almost daily, echoing the dark days of 2006-2007, the peak of a sectarian civil war.
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