Shiite pilgrim killed in Baghdad
Religious flags of Shiite Imams waves while relative of Qssim Abbas, 48, who was killed in a bomb attack take his body for burial in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. On Thursday a series of bombings targeting members of Iraq’s Shiite Muslim majority killing and injuring dozens of Iraqis, police said. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)
Religious flags of Shiite Imams waves while relative of Qssim Abbas, 48, who was killed in a bomb attack take his body for burial in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 160 kilometers (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Jan. 6, 2012. On Thursday a series of bombings targeting members of Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority killing and injuring dozens of Iraqis, police said. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: A visitor to the 40th Martyrdom Day of Imam Hussein Bin-Ali has been killed in an explosive charge blast and 5 others injured in Mahmoudiya township, south of Baghdad, a police source reported on Saturday. “An explosive charge blew up early on Saturday morning, aimed at a group of visitors on the 40th Martyrdom Day of Imam Hussein Bin-Ali, in Mahmoudiya township, south of Baghdad early in the day, killing one of its members and wounding 5 others,” the security source told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The injured were driven to a nearby hospital for treatment,” the source added. Security Forces had cordoned off the venue of the explosion, keeping the visitors away, for fear of other explosions. The Shiite Muslims commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Day of the martyrdom of Imam Hussein Bin-Ali, who was killed, together with 70 of his relatives and supporters in the city of Karbala in the Islamic Hijri Year 61, at the dawn of Islam.