
The strike aimed at a Sunni Arab mosque in Tal Afar, a mostly Shiite Turkmen village in Nineveh province between the town of Mosul and the Syrian border.
Baghdad — Twelve persons were slain in an Iraqi mosque on Friday as a suicide bomber shot dead the plea foremost and then blustered himself up in a village beside the restive to the north town of Mosul.
The strike aimed at a Sunni Arab mosque in Tal Afar, a mostly Shiite Turkmen village in Nineveh province between the town of Mosul and the Syrian border.
It took location at round 12:30 pm (0930 GMT) on the Muslim holy day of plea and left 67 persons hurt, policeman and health agents said.
Witnesses and security agents said that after the mosque’s imam started to talk, the attacker dragged out a cannon and shot him, then set off a band full of explosives as other persons endeavored to undertake him.
All streets premier to the mosque were shut by security agents after the strike, while new checkpoints were erected and tough explorations were being conveyed out, the policeman agent said.
Nineveh province has been strike by some foremost attacks against lesser villages as well as bombings in Mosul, Wardak, Sinjar and Khaznah in latest months that have slain more than 100 people.
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