Twin car bombings in northern Iraq, and separate attacks on the homes of a schoolteacher and a human rights activist left at least 11 people dead today, government officials said.

Twin car bombings in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and an attack by eight gunmen on the home of a school teacher in the centre of the country left at least 10 people dead, government officials said today.

A suicide bomber in the northern city of Tikrit and gunmen in the Iraqi capital killed a total of seven people today, officials said.

A bomb targeting worshippers attending Friday prayers at a Sunni mosque north of Baghdad has killed 16 people and wounded dozens more, the top medical official in the province said.