ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> <br />A bomb exploded outside a Sunni mosque in the northern oil-rich city of Kirkuk as worshippers were leaving after Eid prayers on Tuesday (October 15), killing eight people, police and medics said.<br/> <br />Eleven people were wounded in the blast, at Al-Dhubat in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of the capital Baghdad.<br/> <br />The violence is part of a sustained campaign of militant attacks since the start of the year that has prompted fears of wider conflict in a country where ethnic Kurds and Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims have yet to find a stable power-sharing compromise.<br/> <br />Sunnis started Eid al-Adha on Tuesday (October 15), while Shi'ites begin observing Eid on Wednesday (October 16).<br/> <br />No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but insurgents have been regaining strength in recent months, recruiting from the country's Sunni minority, which resents Shi'ite domination since the U.S.-led invasion of 2003.
