Bomb at Shi’ite mosque kills at least eight

A CAR bomb exploded during prayers at a Shi’ite mosque in Baghdad yesterday, killing eight people and wounding 20, police said.

The blast happened in midday prayers at Al-Subeih mosque, in the capital’s eastern New Baghdad neighbourhood, said police Col Ahmed Aboud. Witnesses said a car parked outside the building since the morning exploded. One section of the mosque collapsed, and frantic worshippers in blood-spattered clothes searched through the rubble for loved ones.

Body parts littered the ground. One man clutched a child’s foot, shaking and weeping.