Baghdad Mosque Attack: Suicide Bomber Kills 7 Worshippers, Wounds More Than 20

Suicide Bomber Kills 7 Inside Baghdad Mosque
An Iraqi soldier walks past an ambulance on June 4, 2013 as security measures were tightened in the Iraqi capital Baghdad during preparations for the Imam al-Kadim commemoration ceremony to be held by Shiite Muslims the following day amid a sharp increase in violence. Pilgrims continue to converge on the seventh Imam's shrine in the Kadhimiya district of northern Baghdad to mark his death in 795 after being poisoned by Iraq's ruler then, Harun al-Rashid. AFP PHOTO/SABAH ARAR (Photo credit should read SABAH ARAR/AFP/Getty Images)
An Iraqi soldier walks past an ambulance on June 4, 2013 as security measures were tightened in the Iraqi capital Baghdad during preparations for the Imam al-Kadim commemoration ceremony to be held by Shiite Muslims the following day amid a sharp increase in violence. Pilgrims continue to converge on the seventh Imam's shrine in the Kadhimiya district of northern Baghdad to mark his death in 795 after being poisoned by Iraq's ruler then, Harun al-Rashid. AFP PHOTO/SABAH ARAR (Photo credit should read SABAH ARAR/AFP/Getty Images)

BAGHDAD, June 18 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday, killing at least seven worshippers, police said.

More than 20 people were wounded in the attack in the al-Qahira district of northern Baghdad.

(Reporting by Kareem Raheem; Writing by Isabel Coles; Editing by Janet Lawrence)

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