(KUNA) -- Up to 92 people were either killed or wounded in tit-for-tat sectarian violence including mortar and rocket attacks in various regions of Iraq on Tuesday, police said. Police, in a fresh report on today's violence, said more than 25 mortar shells and rockets crashed into the predominantly-Sunni district of Al-A'thamiah in the northern part of the capital, killig 20 people and wounding 72 others.The attack was preceded with a series of car bomb and suicide attacks that targetted mainly-Shiite regions and towns. A police source said the shells and rockets destroyed several houses, and hospital sources said many of the wounded were suffering from serious cuts.
The police, in another updated report, said eight people were killed and 12 others were seriously wounded in a machine-gun attack that targetted a group of Shiite Muslims marking the religious Ashoura event in Al-Bayaa' district. Police said 25 Iraqis were killed and 59 others were wounded in a suicide attack on Ali Al-Akbar Hussainiah in the region of Baldrouz. The toll in a bomb blast in the town of Khanqeen rose to 15 dead and 40 wounded -- including three women and one boy. The American Army said in a statement that 16 people died in a blast of a trash-collection truck near a police station in the city of Al-Ramadi, the provincial city of the governorate of Al-Anbar west of Baghdad.