Attacks across Iraq on Monday killed six people and wounded dozens of others, including 15 Afghan pilgrims visiting the country for religious commemorations, officials said. The violence included bombings against Shiite worshippers walking to the shrine city of Karbala, 110 kilometres (70 miles) south of Baghdad, for Arbaeen rituals later this week. In Baghdad, gunmen burst into the home of Fatma Tayyiq, a branch manager for the Commercial Bank of Iraq, and shot her and husband dead in the capital’s central Karrada district, an interior ministry official said.
It was not immediately clear why Tayyiq was targeted. Just south of Baghdad in the town of Owairij, a roadside bomb targeting devotees walking to Karbala killed one pilgrim and wounded at least nine others, defence and interior ministry officials said. In the northern ethnically-mixed city of Kirkuk, meanwhile, a gunman opened fire on a group of security officers from Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, known as the asayesh, killing two officers and wounding two others, a police officer in the city said.
