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Violence hits Iraq despite security plan
Saturday 17 June 2006, 10:42 Makka Time, 7:42 GMT
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A bomber has killed at least 10 people and wounded 21 in one of Baghdad's largest mosques, despite a security crackdown putting large numbers of Iraqi and US troops on the streets.
on Firiday, the bomber attacked the Baratha mosque barely an hour before Friday's prayers, a security source said on Friday.
The mosque, which is used by members of Iraq's Shia, had been fired at several times since the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.
On April 7, a triple bombing hit worshippers just as they were leaving the mosque, killing 90 and wounding 175.
Also, a mortar barrage struck a commercial area north of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least two people and wounding 16, police Lieutenant Muhammad Khayun said.
The attack occurred at 1:30pm on a street with many shops in the northern suburb of Saba Abkar, near the Taji air base.
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Fresh violence hits Iraq cities
Scene from the Karbala blast
Sunni insurgents are usually accused of attacking Shia sites
A number of car bomb attacks have killed at least 24 people in Iraq's holy city of Karbala and Baghdad.
A bomb near the provincial government in Karbala killed at least 15 people. In Baghdad, two bombs killed at least nine people, mostly soldiers.
Baghdad police also said they had found the bullet-riddled bodies of 43 men killed in apparent sectarian attacks.
It comes as Prime Minister-designate Nouri Maliki continues efforts to form a cabinet, months after elections.
Rush hour attack
In Baghdad, the first explosion at 0900 (0500 GMT) targeted an army patrol in the city's Adhamiya district. At least 15 people were injured, including civilians.
A second blast - apparently aimed at a police patrol - followed immediately afterwards, killing one civilian and wounding five.
The Karbala device went off at about 0915 (0515 GMT) as employees returned to work after the weekend.
Police at first said the bomb had killed 21 people and injured more than 50, but hospital reports later put the casualty figures at least 15.
Karbala, about 80km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, is home to two of the most important shrines for Shia Muslims and has been often targeted by insurgents.
The BBC's Andrew North, in Baghdad, says certain groups within the Sunni-led insurgency are widely thought to be running a deliberate campaign of attacking Shia religious sites.
It is feared the Karbala attack is aimed at provoking further communal violence between Iraq's Shia and its minority Sunni Arab community, says our correspondent.
Most of the bodies found recently are suspected to have been murdered in the spate of violence that began after a major Shia shrine in Samarra was bombed in February.
All the bodies discovered in the past 24 hours belonged to men who were "handcuffed and shot in the head" , according to an interior ministry official quoted by AFP news agency.
Twenty-eight were found in Baghdad's western Kharkh area, while another 15 were recovered from the eastern Rusafa district, the unnamed official told AFP.
Elsewhere, an Italian soldier has died from his injuries gained in a blast last month in the southern city of Nasiriya, bringing to five the number of foreign soldiers killed in the 27 April attack.
