(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A suicide bomber targeted mourners at a Shia mosque south of Baghdad on Sunday, killing 24 people, police and a doctor said, the latest in a series of funeral attacks.The attack against Al-Hussein Mosque in the Musayyib area also wounded 27 people, the sources said.A suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest inside Imam Hussein mosques amid a solace in Mussayib district which resulted in killing and wounding many persons as well as causing material damages to the building of the mosque to the north of Babel province.The roof of the holy building collapsed as a result of the blast.Earlier in the day, six people were killed and 29 others injured when four explosive-laden cars went off outside a security directorate in the capital of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, Arbil.Four of those killed in the bomb attacks were reportedly members of the local Asayesh security force.Also on Sunday, fourteen people, including Iraqi security forces, were killed and dozens more wounded in a series of attacks across Iraq.In the town of Tarmiyah, located about 30 kilometers (18 miles) north of the capital, Baghdad, houses belonging to Iraqi security forces came under attack in the late hours of Saturday. Four people, including a soldier, died and 15 others were injured.In addition, a policeman was killed and another wounded in southeastern Baghdad, when a sticky bomb targeted their patrol vehicle. One person also died and eight others sustained injuries when a separate explosion ripped through a market in Baghdad.Elsewhere in the Iraqi capital, an Electricity Ministry employee was killed in a bomb attack. Two bombs also killed one person and wounded six others outside a cafe.Violence has surged across Iraq in recent months, reaching its highest level since 2008. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has said that attacks in the country aim to “reignite sectarian strife.”According to the United Nations, more than 5,000 people have been killed in acts of violence so far this year in Iraq, 800 of them in August alone with Baghdad Province worst hit. /129
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A suicide bomber targeted mourners at a Shia mosque south of Baghdad on Sunday, killing 34 and also wounded 45, police and a doctor said, the latest in a series of funeral attacks.