Bombings and mortar fire after curfew lifted in Baghdad

Sunnis and Shiites have traded bombings and mortar fire against mainly religious targets in Baghdad, killing at least 68 people after authorities lifted a curfew that had briefly calmed a series of sectarian reprisal attacks.

At least six of yesterday’s attacks hit clearly religious targets, concluding with a car bombing after sunset at the Shiite Abdel Hadi Chalabi mosque in the Hurriyah neighbourhood that killed 23 and wounded 55.