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Suicide bomb targets Shabak minority in northern Iraq Series of bomb attacks brings carnage to Iraq
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At least 15 people have been killed in a suicide bomb in a village near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. At least 39 people have been killed in a series of bomb blasts across Iraq, with dozens more injured.
The attack hit the village of Mwafaqiya in Nineveh province, inhabited by members of the Shabak minority. At least 24 people were killed in various areas of Baghdad as Iraqis were celebrating the Eid al-Adha holiday.
The Shabak largely follow a faith considered an offshoot of Shia Islam. No group has said it carried out the latest attack but the Shabak have been targeted by Sunni Muslim militants. Earlier a suicide bomb in the village of Mwafaqiya, near the northern city of Mosul, killed at least 15 members of the Shabak minority.
Sectarian violence has surged across Iraq in recent months. Violence in the country has reached its highest level since 2008, with a surge in sectarian attacks.
Qusay Abbas, a former Shabak representative in the Mosul provincial council, said the attack happened early in the morning. Correspondents say the failure of the Shia-led government to address the grievances of Iraq's Sunni Arab minority - which complains of being excluded from government jobs and senior posts and of abuses by security forces - has driven the surge in unrest.
"A suicide truck bomber detonated himself amidst the houses of my village," he told Reuters. The Shabak largely follow a faith considered an offshoot of Shia Islam.
"There are still some people under the debris of their houses." No group has said it carried out the latest attack but the Shabak have been targeted by Sunni Muslim militants.
The UN envoy to Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, condemned the attack in a statement and called for an end to the violence. The UN envoy to Iraq, Nickolay Mladenov, condemned the attack on the Shabak community. In a statement he called for an end to the violence.
"The recent rise in violence in the Nineveh province calls for urgent action and strengthened security cooperation" between the central government and local officials, as well as with authorities in the Kurdish autonomous region that borders Nineveh, Mr Mladenov said."The recent rise in violence in the Nineveh province calls for urgent action and strengthened security cooperation" between the central government and local officials, as well as with authorities in the Kurdish autonomous region that borders Nineveh, Mr Mladenov said.
Correspondents say the failure of the Shia-led government to address the grievances of Iraq's Sunni Arab minority - which complains of being excluded from government jobs and senior posts and of abuses by security forces - has driven the surge in unrest.
Last month, a suicide bomb attack on a Shabak funeral in Nineveh killed more than 20 people.Last month, a suicide bomb attack on a Shabak funeral in Nineveh killed more than 20 people.
Violence has reached its highest level since 2008, with the UN saying that more than 5,700 people have been killed across the country this year.
Almost 1,000 people were killed and more than 2,000 wounded in September alone, the UN says, one of the highest monthly dead tolls for years.Almost 1,000 people were killed and more than 2,000 wounded in September alone, the UN says, one of the highest monthly dead tolls for years.