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Suicide attack kills at least 24 at Baghdad mosque

A suicide bomber posing as a beggar detonated his explosives inside a main Baghdad Sunni mosque yesterday, killing at least 24 people, including an Iraqi lawmaker, and wounding more than 30 others, hospital and local officials said.
The attack occurred shortly after evening prayers at the Umm al-Qura mosque frequented by Iraqi Sunni leaders in the capital's western Ghazaliya district and toward the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
"The suicide bomber entered acting like he was hurt. He entered into the main prayer area and he began prayers. We started to be suspicious. But when the prayers finished, he blew himself up," said Ahmed Abdul Razaq, who was at the mosque.
The bomber's dismembered remains lay in the main prayer area and blood spatters trailed across the mosque carpet where blast victims had been carried outside, a Reuters journalist said.
An official at Yarmouk Hospital said at least 24 bodies had been brought there as well as 30 wounded. A Baghdad security spokesman earlier said at least six people were killed and 12 more were wounded.



 

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