Blasts at Iraqi Sunni mosque kill 43

  • 11 years ago
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Panic in the aftermath of a two blasts outside a Sunni mosque in the Iraqi city of Baquba. At least 43 people were killed in the bombings which came as worshippers left Friday prayers.

The attack --- just 30 miles northeast of Baghdad, is the latest in a month-surge of sectarian violence. According to U.N. figures, 712 were people killed in Iraq last month -- the bloodiest period in the coutnry in five years.