4 visitors wounded in 2nd Baghdad blast

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Four civilians on Sunday were wounded when an explosive device detonated in western Baghdad, according to the Iraqi police. “A roadside explosive charge went off in al-Yarmuk neighborhood, western Baghdad, wounding four pilgrims who were heading to Karbala on foot,” a police source told IraqiNews.com news agency. Security forces sealed off the scene of the blast and took the wounded to a nearby hospital for treatment, the source noted. 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