Three female suicide bombers kills nine Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad
28/7/2008 16:56
Three female suicide bombers blew themselves up among groups of Shiite
pilgrims in central Baghdad today, killing at least nine of them and wounding
some 30 others, an Interior Ministry source said.
A female suicide bomber
wearing an explosive vest blew herself up among a group of pilgrims near the
National Theater in Baghdad neighborhood of Karrada, the source told Xinhua on
condition of anonymity.
A second woman suicide bomber struck another crowd of
pilgrims near the Kahramana Square in Karrada, while a third woman suicide
bomber hit another group of pilgrims near the Musa Bin Nasir fuel station, the
source said.
A total of nine people were killed and some 30 others wounded by
the three attacks, the source said.
Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims
converge every year from Iraqi cities and Shiite Muslim countries, particularly
Iran, on the mausoleum of Imam Musa al-Kadhim, to mark the death of the seventh
of the twelve Shiite Imams.
Kadhim's burial site is in the golden-domed
mosque in central of the old part of the Kadhimiya district.
Xinhua
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