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Bomb targets Iranian pilgrims
Publish Date: Tuesday,17 August, 2010, at 01:25 AM Doha Time
A car bomb exploded yesterday in a town northeast of the Iraqi capital while a
bus full of Iranian Shia pilgrims was passing, killing five people and wounding
nine, security officials said.
The blast in Muqdadiya, 80km northeast of Baghdad, was the latest in a series
of attacks testing the mettle of Iraqi security forces as US troops prepare to
end combat operations at the end of August before a full withdrawal next year.
Four of the dead were Iranian pilgrims, who have flocked to Iraq's Shia
religious sites in the hundreds of thousands since the US-led invasion removed
dictator Saddam Hussain in 2003.
All of the wounded were Iranian, said a police source and a source in the
security operations centre of Diyala province, where a volatile ethnic and
religious mix of Sunnis, Shias and Kurds has helped sustain a stubborn
insurgency.
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