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Woman sits beside her son who was wounded with other pilgrims in a car bomb attack, in a hospital in Baghdad
06 Mar 2007
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A woman sits beside her son who was wounded with other pilgrims in a car bomb attack, in a hospital in Baghdad March 6, 2007. A car bomb killed five Shi'ite pilgrims and wounded 10 others as they were marking a religious event that involves people walking on foot across Iraq converging in the holy city of Kerbala, police said.
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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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