A series of bombings and mortar attacks targeting Christians have killed at least three people in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, security sources say.
Five separate areas with a strong Christian majority were hit, and at least 24 people have been injured.
The attacks come days after more than 40 people when a Catholic cathedral was seized by Islamist militants.
The violence comes as top-level talks on ending the country’s political crisis ended without agreement.
“Two mortar shells and 10 homemade bombs targeted the homes of Christians in different neighbourhoods of Baghdad between 0600 and 0800 (0300 and 0500 GMT),” an unnamed official told AFP news agency.
Over the weekend, a senior Iraqi cleric in London called on Iraqi Christians to flee the country because it was so dangerous.
“If we stay, they will kill us,” Archbishop Athanasios Dawood said after addressing a congregation of Iraqi Orthodox Christians at a service in London.
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