A total of 15 people were killed and dozens injured in a series of car bombs and shootings in Iraq on Saturday, medical and security officials said.
Five pilgrims were killed and 12 injured in the town of Taji, 25 kilometres north of Baghdad, when a bomb attached to their bus exploded, the officials said.
A car bomb in the marketplace of another town north-east of the capital killed five civilians and injured 15, they said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Three members of a family were killed by gunmen in their house in Mosul, around 400 kilometres north of Baghdad.
In the same town, two people were killed and four wounded in a similar attack, while six people were wounded when unidentified insurgents blew up their house, the officials told dpa.
Two civilians were injured when a car bomb was detonated near a mosque, also in Mosul, the officials said.
Security forces defused another car bomb outside a Shiite Muslim shrine in northern Mosul, the independent website Alsumaria News reported.
In the city of Salah Eddin, 170 kilometres north of Baghdad, seven people were injured in a car bombing that targeted a building run by a Shiite religious agency, local media reports quoted police as saying.
Although the level of violence has dropped from a peak in 2006, attacks have become almost daily occurrences in Iraq this year.
A wave of bombings across Iraq on September 9 killed 88, the highest daily toll since the US forces withdrew from the country in December.
Published - October 27, 2012 04:26 pm IST
