At least 24 people were killed in a series of bomb blasts in the Iraqi capital Monday night , including two explosions near Shia Muslim mosque and a busy bus station , police and medics said .
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack , but Shia are often targeted by Sunni insurgents who have gained strength again in Iraq last year and stormed several cities in recent weeks .
In the deadliest attack Monday, a minibus packed with explosives blew up at a bus station in the main Shiite district of Ur in northern Baghdad , killing at least 11 people, police and medical sources .
" The minibus is parked in the garage arouse suspicion and when the passengers started screaming for the driver , the vehicle exploded , " said bus driver Farah Abbas .
" A lot of people affected by blast debris burning vehicle " .
A total of nine people were killed in a car bomb attack targeting a mosque in a predominantly Shiite district of Amil and Karrada in Baghdad , police and medical sources .
A car bomb near a busy street in the western district of Baghdad , killing four people Ghazaliya .
In a separate incident in the city of Tikrit , gunmen shot dead a police colonel and a barber in his shop .
Soldiers on Monday struggled to wrest control of Sulaiman Pek from Sunni insurgents , who control many parts of the northern town on Thursday and raised the black flag of Islamic state in Iraq and the Mediterranean ( ISIL ) .
ISIL active in the civil war in neighboring Syria and is also present in the city of Falluja , which has been surrounded by troops since January 1 , when militants took over .
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