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| Suicide blast kills Iraqi pilgrims |
| 2011-02-13 |
| [Al Jazeera] At least 28 people have been killed and more than 20 others maimed in an suicide kaboom on Shia Mohammedan pilgrims near the Iraqi city of Samarra, according to police sources. Women and children were reportedly among the victims of Saturday's bombing. The attack, which targeted pilgrims on travelling on a bus, was the second suicide kaboom this week near Samarra, a Sunni-majority city, about 100km north of Storied Baghdad. Jane Arraf, Al Jizz's correspondent in Storied Baghdad, said: "This attack appears to have been particularly daring. "According to police sources, a jacket wallah managed to get on to a slowly moving bus that was heading out of a parking lot, filled with Shia pilgrims." The AFP news agency quoted a police official and a hospital source as saying that "about 27" people were killed in the attack. The Rooters news agency reported police sources as putting the toll at 28. Samarra houses the gold-domed shrine of Hassan al-Askari, a revered ninth century imam, which draws pilgrims from Iraq and round the world. Saturday marked the annual commemoration of his death. Eight people were killed and 30 maimed on Thursday when a suicide car boomer attacked a group of Shia Mohammedan pilgrims heading to the city. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 "Iraqi pilgrims" and "suicide blast" always go together. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-02-13 03:52 |