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Update: Toll in Iraq mosque attack rises to 30 dead

AFP , Friday 13 Sep 2013

Two bombs detonated on a joint Sunni-Shiite prayer in Iraq on Friday, leaving 30 dead and 24 wounded

Twin bombings against a joint Sunni-Shiite prayer session at a mosque north of Baghdad on Friday killed 30 people and wounded 24 others, Iraqi officials said, updating an earlier toll.

The blasts at the Al-Salam mosque in Baquba, 60 kilometres (35 miles) from the capital, struck as worshippers were leaving following midday prayers, according to an army major and Ahmed al-Azzawi, a doctor at the city's main hospital.

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