10 killed in suicide bombing in northern Iraq

MOSUL, Iraq, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- At least 10 people were killed and 25 others wounded Saturday in a suicide bomb attack at a funeral near Iraq's northern city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, a provincial police source said.

The attack occurred in the afternoon when a suicide bomber blew up his explosive vest at a funeral of the Iraqi minority of al- Shabak in the town of Baashiqa, some 10 km northeast of Mosul, which is about 400 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The Shabak people are a Shiite minority group living in Iraq's northern province of Nineveh, particularly, around Mosul.

The toll could rise as ambulances and civilian cars evacuated the victims to different hospitals and medical centers in Baashiqa and in Mosul, the source said.

Iraq is witnessing its worst eruption of violence in recent years, which raises fears that the country is sliding back to the full-blown civil conflict that peaked in 2006 and 2007, when monthly death toll sometimes exceeded 3,000.

Source http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-09/14/c_132720913.htm

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