4 persons, including cop, wounded in Baghdad blasts

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Three pilgrims and an Iraqi policeman were injured in two explosive charge blasts in the capital Baghdad, the Iraqi police said on Tuesday. “At noon, a roadside explosive device targeted Arbaeen visitors in al-Zafaraniya area, southeastern Baghdad, wounding three of them,” a police source told IraqiNews.com news agency. Meanwhile, a policeman was wounded when a sticky device hit his civilian vehicle in Baghdad‘s northern area of al-Taji, according to the same source. On Monday, (Feb. 1), a female bomber blew herself up among a crowd of Shiite pilgrims who were heading to Karbala in Bob al-Sham area, northern Baghdad, killing 41 and wounding 106 others, according to latest figures. The Arbaeen is a religious occasion marking the 40 th day after the death of Imam al-Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson and the third holiest figure for Shiite Muslims, in the battle of Taf in Karbala in the Hegira year 61 (680 in the Gregorian calendar). SS (P) 2