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struggle4progress

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Tue Oct 15, 2013, 11:57 PM Oct 2013

Iraq bomb kills mosque worshippers

A bomb has ripped through a crowd of Sunni worshippers coming out of a mosque in northern Iraq after prayers at the start of a major Muslim holiday, killing 12 people and wounding 24.
Published: Tue, October 15, 2013

The attack took place in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 180 miles north of Baghdad, as worshippers were leaving the al-Qodus mosque after morning prayers for the beginning of the Eid holiday ...

More than 5,000 people have been killed in Iraq since al-Qaida and other militants stepped up attacks following a security crackdown against a Sunni protest camp in April ...


http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/436853/Iraq-bomb-kills-mosque-worshippers

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