The United States condemned Friday's attack on a Shiite mosque in Baghdad that left at least 50 people killed and another 138 wounded.

"We condemn this most recent bombing of a mosque in Baghdad. There was significant loss of life," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said at a briefing.

"This was clearly perpetrated by those who wish to divide Iraq, who wish to encourage sectarian strife. And it was perpetrated by individuals who clearly have no respect for religion," McCormack said.

The U.S. government will work with the Iraqi authorities to try to prevent similar types of attack, McCormack added.

Earlier in the day, three suicide bombers blew themselves up inside a Shiite mosque in the north of Baghdad in the latest of such attacks on a mosque.

Source: Xinhua