Suicide bomber kills at least 5 in Iraq mosque…
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest inside a mosque in central Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least five people and wounding 15, police said.
The attack took place at a Sunni Muslim mosque in the town of Dhuluiya, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, police in Tikrit said. Initial reports said the attack injured Nadhim al-Jubouri, a leader of a local armed guard unit, but police later said he was not among those injured.
An official at a security forces command center in Tikrit said the bomber was a young man of around 15 to 16 years old.
The violence in Iraq unleashed by the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003 has eased from the worst of the sectarian bloodletting in 2006-2007.
But suicide bombings and other attacks continue to jar Iraq’s fragile calm, especially in ethnically mixed areas, even as U.S. troops prepare to withdraw by the end of 2011.
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