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Two mosques bombed, muezzin killed in Iraq: Police

Published: 04 Jan 2016 - 10:22 am | Last Updated: 01 Nov 2021 - 07:30 pm
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Hilla, Iraq: Blasts rocked two Sunni mosques in central Iraq Monday, amid fears of renewed sectarian strife following Saudi Arabia's execution of a prominent Shiite cleric, police and medics said.

Groups of men wearing military uniforms bombed two Sunni mosques overnight in the Hilla region, south of Baghdad, and a muezzin was shot dead near his home in Iskandariyah, the sources said.

AFP