Officials: Car bomb targets funeral in Baghdad, killing dozens

Source: CNN

Officials: Car bomb targets funeral in Baghdad, killing dozens
By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN
updated 9:55 AM EST, Fri January 27, 2012

Baghdad (CNN) -- A suicide car bomber targeted a Shiite funeral procession in the Iraqi capital Friday, killing 31 people and wounding 60 others, two police officials said.

The blast occurred as mourners passed by an outdoor market and headed toward a hospital in Baghdad's Zafarniya district to recover the bodies of three relatives shot the night before in the western part of the city, the officials said.

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The bombing is the latest in a series of attacks in the nation that have killed more than 200 people this year. They occurred amid a political crisis raising fears of a return to the sectarian violence of last decade -- the Sunni-Shiite hostilities that engulfed Iraq at the height of the war.


Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/27/world/meast/iraq-bombing-attack/index.html?hpt=hp_t3

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Lots more info at the link.

So sad.