'Sticky bombs' kill Sunni imams
2009-11-24 19:08
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Baghdad - Two Sunni religious leaders were killed in and around the Iraqi capital on Tuesday by magnetic bombs attached to their cars, security officials said.
In one attack, the imam of the Arkam ibn Arkam mosque in the southern Baghdad neighbourhood of Dora was killed by a so-called "sticky bomb" as he was driving to the mosque, police and army officers said on condition of anonymity.
The other attack killed Sheikh Ahmad Mihemdi, imam of Saqlawiyah mosque, around 50km west of Baghdad.
Separately, 10 people have been sentenced to death in trials since the beginning of the month over the murders of 70 people in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, according to a provincial police official who did not want to be identified.