Violence in Iraq killed 11 people on Monday as an army official escaped an assassination attempt, the latest in a surge of unrest that has left more than 4,200 dead this year
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The attacks were the latest in months of unrelenting bloodshed, the country's worst since 2008.
Monday's blasts and shootings mostly struck areas north of the capital and came a day after nationwide attacks which killed 60 people.
In the deadliest new attack, a roadside bombing targeting an army patrol in the northern city of Mosul killed four soldiers, an army first lieutenant and a doctor said.
Also in Mosul, a suicide bomber blew himself up at an army checkpoint, killing a soldier and wounding 10 others, among them the provincial army intelligence chief Brigadier General Ismail al-Juburi, officials said.
Separate shootings in the city left two others dead.
In Muqdadiyah, a town north of Baghdad, militants stormed a Shiite shrine and captured a family inside. They separated two of them, a father and a son, and killed them before bombing the shrine, security and medical sources said.
Both the victims were employees of the shrine.
And in the predominantly-Shiite southern port city of Basra, gunmen killed two Sunnis in separate attacks, security sources said, prompting a senior Sunni leader to suspend prayers until further notice.
"All prayers will be suspended to preserve the worshippers' lives until security has been provided for them," Abdulkarim al-Khazraji, head of the Basra offices of a foundation charged with running Sunni places of worship, told AFP.
Violence has surged in Iraq in recent months.
Authorities insist a campaign targeting militants is yielding results, but the government has faced criticism for not doing more to defuse Sunni Arab anger over alleged ill-treatment at the hands of the Shiite-led authorities.
Analysts and diplomats say militants have exploited the situation on the ground to recruit new fighters and carry out attacks.
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