BBC
A series of suicide bombings in Iraq has left at least 80 people dead and another 100 injured.
In the worst attacks, suicide bombers struck two Shia mosques in the town of Khanaqin near the
Iranian border, killing at least 74 people.
The bombers blew themselves up while hundreds of worshippers were attending Friday prayers, in what is being seen as an act of sectarian provocation.
Earlier, six people were killed in two suicide car bombs in Baghdad.
The attacks outside an interior ministry building in the central Jadiriya district injured at least 40 people and brought down a block of flats.
A hotel used by foreigners may also have been targeted in the attack.
A nearby interior ministry detention centre has been at the centre of a detainee abuse scandal.
The suicide bombs in Khanaqin, in north-eastern Iraq, are the latest in a string of attacks against Shia mosques.
The BBC's Jim Muir, in Baghdad, says the attacks were intended as an act of sectarian provocation, as all the casualties must have been Shia Muslims at prayer.
"Two suicide bombers wearing explosive belts walked into the Greater and the Smaller Khanaqin mosques and blew themselves up," Diyala provincial council leader Ibrahim Hasan al-Bajalan told the AFP news agency.
The blasts in enclosed spaces, packed with worshippers, caused horrendous casualties.
Posted at January 13, 2007 11:21 AM