Two Indonesian men and a toddler were hacked to death in Malaysia

Two Indonesian men and a toddler were hacked to death in Malaysia
following a suspected dispute between rival migrant laborers,
Malaysian police said on Monday. The victims, from Indonesia's
eastern island of Flores, were attacked by a mob of about 50
people late on Sunday in a residential area just south of Kuala
Lumpur, said district police chief Shah Gzali Khan Shahadad. The
assailants were believed to be from Indonesia's western province
of Aceh, Shah Gzali was quoted as saying by the national news
agency, Bernama. Police identified the victims as Afandi Ali, 30;
his 1-year-old daughter Nurul Izati; and Mohamad Hasdar, 20.
Afandi's wife was critically injured in the attack, while scores
of other residents were believed to have since gone into hiding,
Bernama reported. --AP

Blast rocks Iraqi mosque

Two Iraqis were killed and at least nine wounded on Monday in an
explosion inside Kufa's Great Mosque compound, a stronghold of
Shiite radical cleric Moqtada Sadr and his Mehdi Army militia. A
Sadr aide blamed the blast on an electrical short that ignited
chemical materials stockpiled there for renovation work, although
witnesses said a rocket hit a weapons cache used by militiamen.
The cache caught fire, triggering multiple explosions, they said.
-- AFP