ROUGH CUT - NO REPORTER NARRATION<br/> <br />Attacks on Shi'ite Muslims killed at least 59 people across Iraq on Thursday (October 17), including a suicide truck bomb targeting members of the country's Shabak minority, police and medics said. Shabaks are mainly Shi'ite.<br/> <br />Ten bombs exploded in primarily Shi'ite districts of the Iraqi capital late on Thursday, killing 44 people in all, police and medics said.<br/> <br />Two restaurants in the al-Maamel district in eastern Baghdad were hit by car bomb blasts, as was the district of Grayat in the north of the city.<br/> <br />Sinaa street in central Baghdad, and the districts of Husseiniya, al-Jidida, al-Dora, al-Shurta, al-Rabi'a and al-Bayaa were also targeted by car bombs, said the police.<br/> <br />They said that the blast near restaurants in the poor Shi'ite district of eastern district of Al-Maamel killed six children and wounded 14 others, while two other car bomb attacks in the Grayat district killed at least three people and wounded 18 others.
