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Suicide bombers kill 30 pilgrims in Iraq-hospital
06 Mar 2007 14:32:45 GMT
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HILLA, Iraq, March 6 (Reuters) - Two suicide bombers killed 30 Shi'ite pilgrims south of Baghdad on Tuesday, hospital sources said.

The blasts took place in the city of Hilla. Earlier, police said eight pilgrims were killed by one suicide bomber. Streams of Shi'ite pilgrims are heading to the holy city of Kerbala to commemorate a religious event.

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A veiled Shi'ite pilgrim takes part in a procession during the Arbain religious ceremony in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, March 8, 2007. More than a million Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims poured into Iraq 's holy city of Kerbala to mark Arbain, the end of a 40-day mourning period since Ashura, which marks the death of Prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussein in 680AD.


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