Suicide bombers kill 74 at mosque

SUICIDE bombers killed 74 worshippers at two mosques in eastern Iraq yesterday while in Baghdad two car bombs targeted a hotel housing foreign journalists and killed eight Iraqis.

The suicide attackers targeted the Sheik Murad mosque and the Khanaqin Grand Mosque - both homes to Shi’ite Muslims - in Khanaqin, 87 miles northeast of Baghdad, as dozens of people were attending prayers, police said. The police command said another 75 were injured in the largely Kurdish town.

At sunset, dozens of people were still digging through the rubble of the three-storey Grand Khanaqin Mosque.