By DPA
Baghdad : Curfew was lifted in Baghdad Sunday, four days after it was imposed following a bomb attack on a Shia mosque in northern Iraq.
Schools, government buildings and businesses were reopened and people were reported to be visiting markets in large numbers.
However, a government official said that curfew in the northern city of Samarra, where one of the holiest Shia religious sites was bombed Wednesday, was not lifted.
The curfew was imposed because of fear of reprisals. According to the Sunni Association of Religious Scholars, 20 Sunni mosques have been attacked across Iraq since Wednesday.
Meanwhile an office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Kirkuk, northern Iraq was struck by a car bomb Sunday, police said, killing two Kurdish security force members and wounding four.