Three Sunni mosques have been attacked in apparent reprisals after a Shia mosque was damaged by suspected al-Qaeda militants in northern Iraq.
The al-Mustafa mosque in Iskandiriyah and the al-Bashir mosque in Mahawil, both located in Babil province south of Baghdad, were bombed early this morning.
The al-Bashir mosque in nearby Mahaweel was also attacked.
A woman and child were wounded in the attacks.
Since the attack on the al-Askari mosque in Samarra yesterday, a total of seven Sunni mosques have been attacked.
A few hours after the Samarra bombing, three mosques in Iskandiriyah - the Grand Mosque, the Abdullah Jubburi mosque and the Hatteen mosque - and the Khudair al-Janabi mosque in Baghdad's Bayaa neighbourhood, were bombed.
Thousands of Iraqi and US soldiers were on the streets of Baghdad and other cities enforcing curfews imposed after yesterday's bombing in Samarra.
Despite the curfews, thousands of supporters of the Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took to the streets of Baghdad's Sadr City in noisy but peaceful protests.
Protests were also staged in southern Najaf and Basra.
