Day of carnage leaves nearly 40 dead throughout Iraq

At least 39 people have been killed and many others injured in a day of violence across Iraq, sources say.

In the deadliest attack of Wednesday, a bombing explosion outside the Tamimi mosque in the Waziriyah neighborhood of the capital Baghdad claimed at least 30 lives, informed sources told AFP on condition of anonymity.

The bombing took place at around 6:40 pm (1540 GMT) as evening worshippers were leaving the mosque.

The attack, in which 55 others were also wounded, caused damage to several shops nearby.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing.

In Mosul, the capital of the northern province of Nineveh, a person was killed by a magnetic sticky bomb attached to a car.

Elsewhere in Nineveh, three separate attacks by unknown gunmen left three others dead including a school principal, who was shot at his house.

In and around the northeastern city of Kirkuk, two people, including a senior security official, were killed in three attacks.

In southern Baghdad, a sticky bomb killed one person and a roadside bomb in the southern outskirts of the city left another dead.

Also in the southern port city of Basra, a gunman on a motorcycle shot one dead.

According to the United Nations, a total of 1,057 Iraqis, including 928 civilians, were killed and another 2,326 were wounded in terrorist attacks throughout the country in July — the deadliest month in Iraq since 2008.

In an interview with Press TV in July, an international human rights lawyer said that foreign powers are attempting to fabricate and benefit from Shia-Sunni discord in Iraq and elsewhere, seeking to see the Muslim world weakened in the wake of such rifts.

Iraq’s Interior Ministry has said that militants have launched an open war in Iraq and they want to push the Middle Eastern country into chaos.