11 killed in car bomb attack on Iraq mosque

Updated: 17:00, Friday, 16 September 2005

11 people have been killed and 24 others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack outside a mosque in central Iraq.

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Iraq - Wednesday was deadliest day of bombings since war began

11 people have been killed and 24 others wounded in a suicide car bomb attack outside a mosque in central Iraq.

Police said the bomb exploded outside a Shi'ite mosque in Tuz Khurmatu, 160km north of the capital, Baghdad.

It came after at least 11 people were killed in separate attacks across Iraq today.

In Baghdad, gunmen shot dead two labourers and a government official in drive-by shootings.

Police said the gunmen, travelling in two cars, opened fire on a group of men near the Shi'ite area of Sadr City as they lined up to find jobs, killing two and wounding 12. Minutes later they shot and killed a transport ministry official.

Also in Sadr City, gunmen shot dead a Shi'ite prayer leader and wounded two relatives after following his car.

Meanwhile south of Baghdad, three policemen were killed and six others injured in a car bomb attack on a police convoy in the town of Hasswa.

And west of the capital, four Iraqi troops were killed by a roadside bomb.

The attacks come after two days of heavy bloodshed, including more than a dozen coordinated car bombings in Baghdad on Wednesday that killed about 150 people and wounded hundreds.

The worst of those blasts was in a Shi'ite neighbourhood of the capital and also targeted day labourers, killing more than 100 as they crowded around a vehicle desperately seeking work.

Wednesday was the deadliest day of bombings in the city since the US-led war began over two and a half years ago.

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