Baghdad, August 08: A bomb hidden in a motorcycle killed six people and wounded 35 in a market in western Baghdad on Friday, police said.
The attack took place in the mostly Sunni Muslim district of al-Khadhraa, they said.
Earlier on Friday, a series of bombs in Baghdad killed six Shi’ite pilgrims. In Mosul, a suicide car bomber also killed 38 people as they left a Shi’ite Muslim mosque near the restive city of Mosul, police said.
Violence has fallen sharply in Iraq in the last 18 months. But insurgents are still capable of launching attacks on civilians, raising questions about the Iraqi security forces’ ability to cope alone after U.S. troops withdrew from urban centres in June.
–Agencies