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Bombing Kills Shiite Pilgrims in Iraq

10 February 2011 20:57 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. A car bomb exploded near a procession of Shiite Muslim pilgrims south of the holy Shiite city of Samarra on Thursday, killing nine people and wounding 39, a police official said, APA reports quoting The New York Times.
The procession was headed for Samarraâ€™s gold-domed shrine, whose destruction by insurgents in 2006 help set off a sectarian war between Sunnis and Shiites in which tens of thousands of people were killed.
The explosion occurred near the city of Dujail, about 40 miles south of Samarra. The pilgrims had begun the procession, which was believed to have included about 80 people, in Baghdad.
The attack came nearly five years after insurgents bombed the Askariya Shrine, one of the worldâ€™s holiest sites for Shiites, on Feb. 22, 2006. Though no one was injured in that bombing, the shrine was severely damaged, with its gold dome shattered.
In the attack on the procession on Thursday, the car exploded around 1:30 p.m. near a tent where pilgrims had stopped for water and a meal, according to the official, who added that no one appeared to be in the car.
The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because he did not want to jeopardize his access to sensitive information.
The Askariya Shrine marks the place where the revered Shiite imam Ali al-Hadi was buried in A.D. 868. Six years later, his son Hassan al-Askari, another noted cleric, was buried there as well. Muhammad al-Mahdi, known as the Vanished Imam, is said to have gone into hiding near the shrine. Shiites believe he will return someday to bring justice to the world.
In January, suicide bombers mounted deadly attacks on Shiite pilgrims who were marching to another religious site, in the city of Karbala. At least 52 people were killed and 150 were wounded in those attacks.
Elsewhere in Iraq on Thursday, an improvised explosive device exploded in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Taji in northwest Baghdad, wounding two civilians. In the Shaâ€™ab district, a Sunni neighborhood in the northeastern part of the capital, the police found a dead body that appeared to have been subjected to torture.

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