Car bomb near Sunni mosque in west of Baghdad kills 11

BAGHDAD: A car bomb exploded near a Sunni mosque in the west of Baghdad killing 11 people on Tuesday, police and medics said.

The blast, which took place in Abu Ghraib, also wounded 21 people. Earlier on Tuesday, several bomb blasts killed at least 12 people in Iraq, where Sunni-Shi’ite tensions are running high.