BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi authorities say mortar fire has killed seven Sunni worshippers and wounded 14 others in a town north of Baghdad.
Police say the attack came just after the end of Friday prayers as the worshippers were leaving the Sunni mosque of al-Muthana in Khalis, a former stronghold of Sunni insurgency. Khalis is 50 miles north of Baghdad.
Police said that part of the mosque was destroyed in the mortar attack.
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