 Five worshippers were killed and 17 wounded when a bomb planted near the back door of the Saad Ben Abi Waqqas mosque in the town of Al-Khales, of the Diyalah province, northeast of Baghdad. A security source told KUNA the explosion rocked the mosque at the end of the Friday prayer and that a young boy was among the victims. In another development, police said that Multi-National Forces and Iraqi army troops and policemen, in a joint operation, arrested 30 people suspected of carrying out terror acts in the Huweija district, west of the northern city of Kirkuk. |