12 killed in bomb explosion at Sunni mosque: Iraq

There are conflicting accounts of whether the blast was the work of a suicide bomber and whether the bomb went off inside or just outside the mosque.

A discarded sandal is seen amid debris and destroyed vehicles the morning after four blasts killed several people in Ramadi, 70 miles (115 kilometers) west of Baghdad on Friday. Photo: AP.

Iraqi officials say 12 people were killed when a bomb exploded at a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad.

Iraqi police and hospital officials in Tikrit say that the Friday bombing also wounded at least 25 people. Tikrit is 80 miles, or 130 kilometres, north of Baghdad.

There are conflicting accounts of whether the blast was the work of a suicide bomber and whether the bomb went off inside or just outside the mosque.

The mosque is located inside a compound of palaces built during Saddam Hussein’s era.

The Iraqi officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to talk to the media.