3 killed, 2 injured in bike accident in Karbala

KARBALA / IraqiNews.com: Three young men were killed and two others inured in an accident when they were racing with their motorbikes in a tourist area in the city of Karbala on Thursday, an eyewitness said. “The accident took place when two motorcyclists were racing on the tourist road, passing through eastern Karbala on Thursday, leaving three young men killed and two others wounded,” the eyewitness told IraqiNews.com news agency. Meanwhile, an official of al-Hussein Teaching Hospital in Karabala told IraqiNews.com that ambulances removed the three dead young men to a morgue and the two wounded persons to a nearby hospital for treatment. The holy Shiite city of Karbala lies 108 km southwest of Baghdad. SKH (S)/AmR 26