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Sat 02 Feb 201040 Shias killed in third Iraq pilgrim attack within week
TWIN CAR bombs yesterday killed at least 40 Shia pilgrims and injured 145 as they walked into the holy city of Karbala, southeast of Baghdad. This was the third fatal attack on pilgrims this week.
On Wednesday, 23 people died and 140 were wounded not far from the site of yesterday’s attack, and on Monday a woman killed 41 and wounded 100 when she exploded a device in a group of pilgrims assembling north of the capital for the trek to Karbala.
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