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According to reports, a suicide bomber killed 42 people in Shia mosque. The attack, which also left 75 people wounded, is likely to heighten tensions as Iraq grapples with a political crisis and more than a month of protests in Sunni-majority areas that have hardened opposition against Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. The militant struck at the Sayid al-Shuhada mosque in Tuz Khurmatu, 175 kilometres (110 miles) north of Baghdad, and targeted the funeral of a relative of a politician who was killed by gunmen a day earlier. No group claimed responsibility, but militants often launch attacks in a bid to destabilise the government and push Iraq back towards the sectarian violence that blighted it from 2005 to 2008. Recent suicide bomb came after a wave of attacks a day earlier killed 26 people and wounded dozens more, shattering a relative calm after a spate of deadly violence last week. 1
- 1. “Iraq suicide bomb kills 42,” Khaleej Times, January 23, 2013, at http://www.khaleejtimes.com/kt-article-display-1.asp?xfile=/data/middlee...