Iraq: Attacks North of Baghdad Kill at Least 25 People
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Version 0 of 1. Three attacks north of Baghdad on Monday killed at least 25 people, officials said, in the latest in a growing series of insurgent strikes. Eight Sunni Muslim militiamen were snatched from their houses in the town of Mishahda, about 20 miles north of Baghdad, and surrounding villages during the past two days and then killed, a police officer said Monday. He said their bodies were left in an orchard on Monday with gunshot wounds. Later in the day, a suicide bomber set off his explosives inside a Shiite mosque where a funeral was taking place, killing at least nine people and wounding 40 others. The attack took place in the town of Muqdadiya, about 60 miles north of Baghdad. And the police said that a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a cafe in Baquba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, killing eight people and wounding 20 others. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attacks. |