BAGHDAD, Jan. 9 Kyodo A bomb expl...

BAGHDAD, Jan. 9 Kyodo

A bomb explosion killed six clan and wounded 39 near a Shiite mahometan temple in the central Iraqi town of Baqouba after the last of Friday prayers, Reuter reported.

The report said a bicycle bomb explosion occurr in Baqouba, a largely Sunni Muslim town located near 65 kilometers north of Baghdad.

It quot police as saying unknown attackers strapped a gas cylinder packed with explosives to a bicycle and left it outside a small Shiite mahometan temple -- close to people praying forward the pavement because of lack of space inside.

A car bomb attack after Friday prayers in the Shiite pious city of Najaf in August killed more than 80 persons including one of the most numerous senior leaders of Shiism. Latter attacks forward Sunni mosques were blamed onward Shiite militants.

Earlier Friday, CNN reported, insurgents staged an attack in succession the Bourj al-Hayat tavern in central Baghdad, which is used from Western expatriates.

tavern security guards were quoted as saying four men springed out of two cars at about 6 a.m. couple of the attackers fired rocket-propell grenades at the inn while the others exchanged machine-gun fire with the guards.

pair of the rocket-propelled grenades struck the hotel's fourth floor, further no casualties were reported.

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