A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shiite mosque. It happened during a funeral in al-Musayyib, killing twenty-five and injuring forty.
In Baqouba, a Sunni mosque was bombed killing five and wounding seventeen. Gunmen attacked a Sahwa checkpoint leaving one dead and three injured.
Gunmen in Dora assassinated an Electric Ministry employee.
Five people were killed and fourteen were wounded by a car bombing in Hussainya's market.
In Idrib, six soldiers were killed and thirty people were wounded in a dual blast. A suicide bomber exploded his vehicle at a military checkpoint. As rescuers gathered, a second bomber, in an ambulance, set his charges off as he reached the scene. Gunmen then attacked the scene, beginning a fire fight with security officials that left three militants dead.
Violence in the country continues to increase as both Sunnis and Shiites attack each other.
The Syrian civil war has only encouraged the centuries old hostilities between the two groups.
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