KUFA, Iraq (AP) - A mortar attack on the main mosque in the Iraqi city of Kufa killed 27 people and wounded 63 others on Thursday, hospital officials and witnesses said.
Thousands of people were crowded around the mosque at the time and ambulances raced to the scene to take scores of wounded to a nearby hospital. Dead bodies lay around the mosque compound, witnesses said.
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