Two mosques bombed muezzin killed in Iraq: Police


(MENAFN- The Peninsula)

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


The Peninsula

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