URGENT: Over 50 Shiite visitors killed, 90 injured in Basra attack

BASRA / IraqiNews.com: At least 52 Shiite visitors have been killed and 90 others injured, most of them women and children, in a suicidebomber attack in southern Iraq’s Basra city on Saturday, a Basra medical source reported.”52 persons have been killed and 90 others injured, most of them women and children, when a suicide bomber, wearing an explosive belt blew himself up against a checkpoint amid a group of Shiite visitors, walking towards Imam Ali Tomb, 18 km to the south of Basra on Saturday,” the security source told IraqiNews.com news agency.Hundreds of thousands of Shiites are walking towards southern Iraq’s Shiite sacred city of Karbala and other sacred places in different part of Iraq nowadays, commemorating the 40th Martyrdom Day of Imam Hussein Bin-Ali, Prophet Mohammed’s Grandson, at thedawn of Islam.Basra, the center of southern Iraq’s Basra Province, is 590 km to the south of Baghdad.SKH (PT)523