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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