Three killed in Baghdad mosque bombing

18 Oct, 2008

At least three Iraqi Shiite worshippers were killed in a bomb attack on Friday as they were leaving a Baghdad mosque after weekly prayers, a security official told AFP. "At around 1:30 (1030 GMT), as worshippers were leaving the Saeed Haydar mosque in the Shaab neighbourhood, a bomb went off killing three people and wounding seven others," the official said.
The bomb exploded at the entrance to the mosque in the Shiite neighbourhood in northern Baghdad, he said.

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