Bombs targeted Shiite worshippers as they left morning prayers Thursday at two Baghdad mosques, killing 16 people and injuring more than 30 others, police said. In a separate attack, gunmen fatally shot four people - two women and two children aged 8 to 10 - as they traveled in a minibus in a town north of Baghdad. Another woman and the driver were also injured in the shooting in Wajehiyah, 60 miles north of Baghdad, police in Diyala province said. The bombings in Baghdad happened as Shiite worshippers were celebrating the holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of the fasting month of Ramadan. In the deadliest attack, a suicide car bomber in a Mercedes sedan detonated his explosives about 20 yards from a mosque in Zafaraniyah in southeastern Baghdad. He set off the bomb when Iraqi soldiers tried to stop him from approaching the building, police said. That attack killed 12 people, including three soldiers, and injured 23, police said. In the other attack, a roadside bomb killed four people as worshippers were leaving the Rasoul mosque in the capital's eastern New Baghdad district. Nine people were injured. The police officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press. ...
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