More than 50 people have been killed and at least 286 others wounded in a series of bombings near the northern city of Mosul and in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials have said.
- In the deadliest attack, two lorries packed with explosives blew up simultaneously on Monday in the predominantly Shia village of Khazna, 20km north of Mosul.
- At least 35 people were killed and 200 others wounded in the attack, police and hospital officials said.
- The blast also levelled more than 30 houses in the village. The village is home to members of the Shabak community, a Shia minority group, outside of Mosul, a predominately Sunni city with significant Christian and Shia minorities.
- Khanza, which is under the control of Kurdish peshmerga forces, also lies on the southern edge of Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
- Hunain Qaddu, an Iraqi member of parliament representing the Shabak, said the peshmerga have never been able to protect his community.
- The Iraqi government was requested to deploy the Iraqi forces in our area in order to protect all Iraqi minorities whether they are Shabak or Turkmen or Christian.
- Source: Al Jazeera
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