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26 killed in Iraq attacks

Iraq - Two suicide bombings near mosques in Baghdad
Iraq - Two suicide bombings near mosques in Baghdad

Two suicide bombings near Shia mosques in Baghdad have killed at least 20 people.

Worshippers were celebrating Eid al-Fitr, which follows the month of Ramadan.

Another six people were shot dead in an ambush in Baquba, north of Baghdad.

Security officials said a suicide bomber blew himself up when he was being frisked outside a mosque in Jadida, a Shia district of southern Baghdad, killing 12 people and injuring 30.

In the second attack, a bomber drove his explosives-filled car into an Iraqi military armoured vehicle at a checkpoint near a mosque in the nearby district of Zafaraniyah.

The blast killed eight people, including four Iraqi soldiers, and injured 10 worshippers.