At least 20 people were killed and 35 others injured in Baghdad's twin suicide bombs on Thursday as the death toll rose in one of the bombing attacks, according to an Interior Ministry source.
The death toll from the suicide car bombing at a crowd of worshippers outside a Shiite mosque in southeastern Baghdad on Thursday rose to eight and ten others injured, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
"The latest reports said that 8 people, including four Iraqi soldiers, were killed and 10 others, including a soldier, wounded by the suicide car bombing in the al-Zaafaraniyah neighborhood," added the source.
Earlier the source put the toll at two worshippers as well as two Iraqi soldiers were killed and eight worshippers injured when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into the crowd of Shiite worshippers while leaving a Shiite mosque in the neighborhood.
People stand on the site of a road side bomb attack in eastern Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2008. Also in southeastern Baghdad, 12 worshippers were killed and 25 others wounded on Thursday when a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest blew up himself outside al-Rasoul Shiite mosque in the Baghdad al-Jadida district or New Baghdad.
The powerful blasts in the two infested areas also caused damages to several nearby buildings and civilian cars, the source said, adding security forces immediately cordoned off the two areas to secure the scenes, while ambulances rushed to transport the victims to nearby hospitals.
The attacks came as the Shiite worshippers were marking the end of the Ramadan fasting month.
Violence still haunts Iraq though the U.S. military said earlier that the level of violence was at a four-year low. Militant groups still seem to be capable of stepping up large scale attacks.
Source:Xinhua
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