Baquba: At least 12 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shiite mosque in central Iraq on Thursday, amid nationwide violence that left 16 dead, including senior police and army officers.
In Thursday’s deadliest attack, a suicide attacker detonated his payload amid a crowd of worshippers inside the Imam al-Hussein mosque in Baladruz, around 75 kilometres (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, according to a colonel in the provincial security command.
At least 12 people were killed in the attack, which occurred at around 8:15 pm (1715 GMT), and 30 others were wounded.
The violence breaks out just months before the United States troops must withdraw Iraq completely, and as a series of American officials have passed through Baghdad this month to pressurize Iraq to decide on whether it wants an extended US military presence.
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