SECURITY: 5 visitors killed, 10 injured in Shiite Religious occasion west of Nassiriya city

THI-QAR / IraqiNews.com: Five visitors of the occasion of the 40th Day of the Anniversary of Imam Hussein Bin-Ali’s Martyrdom have been killed and ten others were injured, in an explosive charge explosion in al-Bat’haa township, west of Nassiriya, the center of southern Iraq’s Thi-Qar Province on Thursday, a security source reported. “An explosive charge blew off against the visitors of Imam Hussein‘s 40th Day Martyrdom anniversary, killing 5 visitors and wounding 10 others, close to al-Bat’haa entrance west of Nassirya, while heading to Karbala city to commemorate the occasion,” the security source told IraqiNews.com news agency. 737