Two Sunni mosques were targeted in bombing attacks on Monday, wounding at least three people, AFP reports.
Residents told police that men clad in military uniforms detonated explosives at two mosques located in the Hilla region, south of Baghdad.
The Ammar bin Yasser mosque, located in Bakerli neighborhood, was attacked just after midnight. Around the same time, the Al-Fateh mosque, located in a village just outside Hilla, was targeted in another attack.
"After we heard the explosion, we went to its source and found that IEDs (improvised explosive devices) had been planted in the mosque," a police captain stated.
"Residents said a group of people with military uniforms carried out this operation," he said, adding that 10 houses were also damaged by the explosion.
Additionally, in a third violent incident, a muezzin -- the person appointed to recite the Muslim call to prayer -- was shot dead near his home in Iskandariyah.
The attacks have raised concern over increasing strife between Sunni and Shia factions following the execution of famed Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr by the Saudi government.
