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Bomb kills 4 near Shi'ite shrine before Iraq poll

Bomb kills 4 near Shi'ite shrine before Iraq poll

A car bomb killed four Iranian pilgrims near Iraq's holiest Shi'ite shrine on Saturday, a day before a parliamentary election that Sunni Islamist insurgents have vowed to wreck.

 

Car bombs kill 40 in Iraq, tensions simmer

Twin car bombs killed at least 40 people and wounded 145 others on Friday in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims observed a major religious rite, health officials said.

 

Bombs targeting Shi'ite Muslims kill 44 in Iraq

A suicide car bomber killed 38 people as they left a Shi'ite Muslim mosque just outside the volatile northern Iraqi city of Mosul, officials said Friday, while a series of bombs in Baghdad killed six Shi'ite pilgrims.

 

Iraq truck bomb kills 25, hurts 150

Iraq truck bomb kills 25, hurts 150

At least 25 people have been killed and 150 wounded in a truck bombing near a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq, police said.

 

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