Roadside Bombs Kill Iraqi Pilgrims

Source: CBS New/AP

Eight Shiite Killed In Latest Attack On Religious Procession


(AP) Roadside bombs struck two minibuses filled with Shiite pilgrims returning to Baghdad on Monday, killing eight people, officials said, in the latest of a series of deadly attacks targeting the pilgrims.

The first bomb rocked a minibus pulling into a busy square in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City in Baghdad, killing four people and wounding 11 others, said a police official.

The driver, who refused to give his name, said his minibus was full of pilgrims returning from the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles south of the capital.

The second minibus, also coming from Karbala, was hit in the Shiite neighborhood of al-Kamaliya in southeast Baghdad. That blast killed four people and wounded 13 others, the police official said.

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The attacks followed a series of bombings last week targeting pilgrims on their way to Karbala that killed 60 people.

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