Car bomb kills eight Shi'ites in Baghdad ahead of festival
 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb in central Baghdad killed at least eight Shi'ite pilgrims on Sunday, police and medics said. Iraq's majority Shi'ites are preparing for the religious festival of Ashura, an event that has been marred by car and suicide bombings in the past. Earlier, a car bomb targeting Shi'ite pilgrims killed 12 people in Baghdad, police and hospital sources said. At mosques and shrines across Iraq, millions of Shi'ites are expected to commemorate the slaying of Prophet Mohammad's grandson Hussein at the Battle of Kerbala in 680 AD. ...

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