Mohammed Ameen / Reuters

A man inspects bloodstained copies of the Koran after a blast occurred inside Umm al-Qura mosque in Baghdad's Ghazaliya district on Monday, Aug. 29. A suicide bomber posing as a beggar detonated his explosives inside a main Baghdad Sunni mosque on Sunday, killing at least 24 people, including an Iraqi lawmaker, and wounding more than 30 others, hospital and local officials.

Suicide bomber attacks Iraq mosque; 29 dead

By Jonathan Woods, msnbc.com

AP reports -- A suicide bomber blew himself up inside Baghdad's largest Sunni mosque Sunday night, killing 29 people during prayers, a shocking strike on a place of worship similar to the one that brought Iraq to the brink of civil war five years ago. (Read more).

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