28 people killed in car blast in Iraq

A suicide car bomb devastated a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq, one of a series of attacks that killed at least 28 worshippers and inured 60, police and medical officials said. The deadliest blast occurred in Rasheediyah, north of Mosul, when a suicide car bomb struck a mosque, killing at least 28 people and trapping dozens more underneath the rubble, said a police official in Ninevah operations command. Bodies were still being pulled from the rubble, the official said. Mosul City Hospital Spokesman Dr Hikmat said that 28 dead and above 60 injured were brought to the hospital.