Iraqi police say 30 killed in Baghdad clash

BAGHDAD, Nov 24 (Reuters) Thirty people were killed and 48 more wounded when gunmen attacked a Sunni Arab neighbourhood of Baghdad today, burning mosques and homes, a source at police headquarters said.

Accounts from residents in the Sunni Hurriya district also spoke of two dozen or more dead and homes still ablaze after the attacks, a day after car bombs killed more than 200 people in a Shi'ite district of the city.

Officials said the attackers burned four mosques in the assault as sectarian tensions boiled over in the capital despite a curfew aimed at curbing violence.

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