Blasts at Shiite targets kill at least 15

Two explosions hit Shiite targets in northern Baghdad after sundown today, killing at least 15 people and wounding 72, police said. The attacks raised the death toll for the day to at least 56.

Police officials said either a car bomb or a mortar had hit the Abdel Hadi Chalabi mosque in the Hurriyah neighbourhood, killing 14 and wounding 62. Mortar fire at the Imam Kadhim shrine in the Kazimiyah neighbourhood on the opposite side of the Tigris River killed one and wounded 10.