More than 70 people died and about 90 injured on Friday when suicide bombers blew themselves up at two Shi'ite mosques and near a bank in the eastern Iraq town of Khanaqin, police said.
The series of three explosions -- one targeting the Sheikh Murad mosque, another a smaller mosque near the market and the third the bank -- took place as worshippers were performing Friday prayers, and left the mosques completely destroyed, eyewitnesses said.
Police said the bombers entered the small mosques in Khanaqin with explosive belts and detonated themselves when the buildings were crowded.
