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Death toll from attacks in Iraq's Hilla 115-medics
06 Mar 2007 20:34:38 GMT
Source: Reuters

HILLA, Iraq, March 6 (Reuters) - The death toll from suicide bomb attacks on Shi'ite pilgrims in the Iraqi city of Hilla on Tuesday rose to 115, hospital officials said.

They said at least 200 people had been wounded. Police had earlier put the death toll at 77. 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.