Eight people have been killed by a car bomb attack near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Monday, Jan 16.
The attack targeted a Shia community outside this city, which is predominately Sunni. Children were among the victims of the bombing, which also left at least four people injured.
According to AP, a member of the city's local council, Qusai Abbas, said the car that blew up was parked outside a group of houses where Shiites have settled since being driven out of Mosul by Sunni militants during fierce sectarian fighting a few years ago.
On Saturday, BBC said that a suicide bomber killed more than 50 people in an attack on Shia pilgrims in the city of Basra, in southern Iraq.
Scores of people have been killed in recent weeks in attacks targeting the Shia community, as they mark the religious festival of Arbaeen.
A political crisis in Iraq has seen tensions rise between the country's Shia majority and Sunni minority since the U.S. troop withdrawal in December.
