A spate of unrelated attacks around Iraq killed 13 people, including seven in the northern city of Mosul and four during a jewellery heist in Baghdad, police and other sources said on Monday. Overnight, gunmen stormed into a notorious and poor district of the northern city of Mosul, killing six women and a man, police and medical sources said.
"Six women and one man were killed last night by gunmen who stormed into a home in Al-Tanak neighbourhood of Mosul," a police major told AFP. The district is infamous for its brothels, which are illegal in Iraq. A source at Al-Mosul hospital confirmed that the bodies of six women and a man had been received. He said the women were aged between 20 and 40.
Meanwhile, in the north of Baghdad, "gunmen detonated three sonic bombs in the Cairo neighbourhood as a distraction. When the bombs exploded, the gunmen attacked three jewellery shops, killing the owners and one other person while fleeing with the loot," an interior ministry official said.