A series of attacks, including the nearby exploded, killing nine people were killed and dozens injured on Sunday in and around the Iraqi capital Baghdad, a Sunni area cafes.
Attack sectarian tensions, a deadly security crackdown by the Sunni in a camp in northern Iraq to protest against what they consider to be their second-class treatment by the Shiite-led government. Government investigators said the April 23 incident which resulted in 40 deaths, and a series of follow-up attacks and fighting has killed more than more than 200.
Caused bloody conflicts have been fears that the country may be headed for a new wave of sectarian fighting, almost pushed to the brink of civil war, in the middle of the past decade.
Sunday morning the first attack, a bomb went off near Zein Al-Abideen mosque in the western suburbs of Baghdad, police officials said. A passer-by was killed and six people were injured, the damage to the exterior wall of the mosque.
A few hours later, police said gunmen stormed the house Mahmoudiya mayor of the town, killing the mayor and his son. Mahmoudiya 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad.
In the evening, police said in a Sunni community in western Baghdad near an Internet cafe, a bomb exploded, killing three people and wounding 13 people.
A few minutes later, three people were killed and 14 injured mortar shells fell on a house in Baghdad's western edge.
Hospital officials confirmed the casualties. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
Violence in Iraq has subsided, but the insurgents' attacks are still frequent.
At the same time, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said his government would continue to follow up the fake bomb detectors sold to Iraq years ago by a British businessman, according to a statement released on the website of the Prime Minister.
Maliki's remarks a few days before, a British judge sentenced to 10 years in prison, James McCormick sale of fake bomb detectors in several countries, said the millionaire show arrogant disregard for the potentially fatal consequences.
Nouri al-Maliki said Iraqi authorities have taken the necessary measures, a long time ago on this issue and some of the people involved were convicted. He did not elaborate.
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