By Xinhua
Fallujah (Iraq) : A suicide bomber blew himself up among worshippers at a mosque in the city of Fallujah west of Baghdad killing at least nine people and wounding 11, a police source said.
“A suicide bomber wearing an explosive-belt blew himself after the evening prayers in the al-Raqib mosque in the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad Monday night,” the source said.
The attack occurred at about 9.30 p.m. when the suicide bomber entered the office of the mosque Imam, Abdul Sattar al-Jumaili, killing him, his son and seven worshippers, the source added.
Jumaili was an opponent for the Al Qaeda and was a target for the group’s death squads, the source said.
Al Qaeda’s adherence to a hardline form of Sunni Islam and indiscriminate killings has brought it into conflict with some Sunni tribes in the province of Anbar, where Fallujah is located.