28 KILLED IN BAGHDAD MOSQUE BLAST

28 KILLED IN BAGHDAD MOSQUE BLAST

 

         

A suicide bomber has killed at least 28 people and wounded at least 30 more after blowing himself up, on Sunday 08/28/2011 night, inside a Sunni Mosque in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, local officials said.

 

The attack took place during prayers in the Umm al-Qura Mosque in west Baghdad, the city’s largest Sunni mosque. Officials said parliamentarian Khalid al-Fahdawi was among the dead in the strike, the Associated Press reported.

 

The attack comes towards the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The Mosque is the main headquarters of the Sunni Endowment, which is responsible for maintaining Sunni Muslim religious sites across Baghdad.

 

“A suicide bomber entered the main area of the mosque and blew himself up,” said Qutaiba al-Falahi, a spokesman for the group, according to Reuters news agency.

 

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