28 killed in Iraq Shia attacks

06.12.2011 [12:45]
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Baku, December 6 (AZERTAC). A wave of bomb attacks targeting Shia pilgrims in Iraq have killed 28 people and wounded 78, a day before the peak of the Ashura religious commemorations.

It was the bloodiest day in Iraq since 27 October, when at least 32 people were killed and 71 wounded in twin blasts in Baghdad.

In today`s deadliest attack, a car bomb blasted pilgrims in the Neel area north of Hilla south of Baghdad, in central Iraq, security officials said.

"We received 16 bodies and 45 wounded," Dr Mohammed Ali of Hilla hospital, and a Hilla police first lieutenant confirmed that toll.

The police officer also said that a car bomb exploded in the centre of Hilla near Shia pilgrims, killing one person and wounding three.

A medical source in another hospital in Hilla said that it had received one body and 20 wounded.

Baghdad was also hit by bomb attacks against Shia pilgrims, with at least 10 people killed and 30 wounded.

"Eight people were killed and 18 wounded by a roadside bomb targeting a convoy of pilgrims in the Urr neighborhood," a police source said.

That toll was confirmed by a medical source at the Imam Ali hospital in Sadr City, who said that "we received eight bodies and 18 wounded from an explosion in the Urr neighborhood."

28 killed in Iraq Shia attacks

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