Friday 18 February 2005, 15:43 Makka Time, 12:43 GMT
At least 31 people were killed and many others wounded in Baghdad, during the religious festivity called Ashura.
A man wearing a belt filled with explosive blew himself up in a mosque in the Dura district (south-west of Baghdad), on Friday.
Police sources were instead talking of an external attack with missiles against the mosque.
All the victims were received in the busy al-Yarmuk hospital, already filled with Iraqi families waiting in the corridors for their relatives.
According to the Lieutenant Colonel Jalal Sabry, in a Shia neighbourhood of western Baghdad, the al-Qura mosque was attacked with mortar shells, one person died and four others were injured.
The Iraqi Lt. Waid Husain referred than two people lost their life and five were wounded when another suicide bomber blew himself up near a procession in the Shia As Shula area northeast of the capital.
Il Romanaccio at 1:55 PM