Iraq bomber targets mourners, 11 killed

A SUICIDE bombing has ripped through a Shi'ite funeral tent in Iraq, killing five mourners.

Six others also died in violence elsewhere in the country on Saturday, police and medics said.

The bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle near a funeral tent in the village of Zahra, north of Baghdad, where family members of a deceased Shi'ite man were receiving condolences.

Five people were killed and 10 wounded, two days after a copycat attack in nearby Muqdadiyah killed 10 mourners.

Sunni militants including those linked to al-Qaeda frequently target members of the Shi'ite majority, whom they regard as apostates.

Iraq has been hit by a surge in violence that has killed more than 2500 people this year, including 310 this month.

Also on Saturday, a roadside bomb in a Shi'ite area of Muqdadiyah killed two people and wounded five, while another exploded when people gathered at the scene, wounding four more.

In Baquba, north of the capital, gunmen killed a shopowner, while others shot dead an army officer in the northern city of Mosul.

And gunmen killed a soldier and wounded another in Kirkuk, also in northern Iraq.

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