A roadside bomb planted near the mosque in Yousifiya went off as worshippers were leaving Friday prayers, killing two civilians and wounding nine, the sources said. A suicide bomber later detonated his explosives-packed vest, killing seven and wounding 28 others, they said.
Iraq is also gripped by a sectarian conflict mostly between Shi`ites and Sunnis that has been exacerbated by the rise of the ultra-hardline Sunni insurgents of Islamic State.
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