A suicide car bomb attack on worshippers leaving a Shia mosque in the Iraqi town of Tuz Khormato has killed at least 10 people and wounded 21.
Salah Aziz Ali, a wounded worker
The blast, shortly after midday prayers today, targeted the Hussainiyat al-Rasoul al-Azam Mosque in Tuz Khormato, 130 miles north of Baghdad.
The attack occurred two days after insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi vowed to wage an "all-out war" on the country's Shia majority, calling its members collaborators of the "Jews and Crusaders."
The latest wave of violence began on Wednesday in Baghdad and has spread throughout the country, killing more than 200 people and wounding more than 600 in three days.
Elsewhere, gunmen opened fire on day labourers in the capital, killing three and wounding a dozen in a drive-by shooting. The workers had assembled in east Baghdad seeking day jobs.
A doctor at Yarmouk Hospital treats a wounded labourer after an attack by gunmen in Baghdad. Gunmen drove up to a crowd of labourers waiting for work and shot dead two and wounded 13
Yesterday, suicide bombers killed at least 31 people in three suicide attacks targeting Iraqi police.
A day earlier, at least 167 people were killed and 570 wounded in more than a dozen bombings in Baghdad. The largest single toll resulted from a suicide bombing against day labourers in the largely Shia Kazimiyah neighbourhood in north Baghdad.
A car bomb also detonated near an Iraqi police patrol in the town of Haswa, near Baghdad, killing three officers and wounding four.
In the Iskandariya district, 30 miles south of Baghdad, gunmen broke into the house of the local mayor and shot him to death after killing his four bodyguards.
In the capital's Shia district of Sadr City, gunmen assassinated a cleric at Imam Ali mosque, as he waited to fill his car with gas.
The US military has continued attacks on militant strongholds in western Iraq along the Syrian border where militants hold many towns and villages along the Euphrates River as it flows southeastward from the Syrian border.
A US marine was killed near the town of Ramadi, the volatile capital of Anbar Province that stretches west from Baghdad to the Syrian, Jordanian and Saudi borders.