Mosul mosque bomb kills 47
2005-03-10 22:47
Mosul - Forty-seven people were killed and 81 wounded on Thursday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shiite Muslim funeral in the restive northern Iraqi city of Mosul, hospital sources said.
The attacker struck as mourners flocked into a hall next to the Sadreen mosque, where a service was being held for Hisham al-Araji, the Mosul representative for radical Shiite leader Moqtada Sadr.
Dr Jassem Abdul Karim at Salam Hospital said 29 bodies and 40 wounded were brought in, while a colleague at Mosul's Medical City hospital earlier reported 18 dead and 41 wounded.
Sunni Muslim Arabs make up about half of the 1.5m population of ethnically mixed Mosul, while the rest are divided among Kurds, Turkmen, Shiites, Christians and other groups.
- AFP