Two bombs near a mosque and another against a funeral procession killed 49 people in Iraq on Friday, officials said, after two days of attacks that killed dozens.

Two bombs near a mosque and another against a funeral procession killed 49 people in Iraq on Friday, officials said, after two days of attacks that killed dozens.

The first bomb exploded as worshippers were departing the Saria mosque in the city of Baquba, north of Baghdad, while a second detonated after people gathered at the scene of the first blast, killing a total of 41 people and wounding 57, police and a doctor said.

And in Madain, south of Baghdad, a roadside bomb exploded near a funeral procession for a Muslim man, killing eight people and wounding at least 25, security and medical officials said.

The bombings are the latest in a series of attacks that have targeted both Sunni and Shiite places of worship in the past few weeks.

On Thursday, a suicide bomber killed 12 people at the entrance of Al-Zahraa Husseiniyah in the city of Kirkuk, where relatives of victims from violence the day before were receiving condolences.

Gunmen also shot dead the brother of a member of Parliament in Baghdad on Thursday.

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Thursday blamed the violence on religious intolerance.

Car bombs hit three areas of Baghdad on Thursday, killing 10 people, while 21 people killed in a series of bombings that hit areas of the capital the day before.

Dozens more died in subsequent unrest that included revenge attacks on security forces, raising fears of a return to the all-out sectarian conflict that ravaged Iraq in 2007-08.

Violence has fallen from those peaks but attacks are still common, killing more than 200 people in each of the first four months of this year, including more than 460 in April, according to Agence France Presse figures.