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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: 60 killed in double bombing at Iraqi shrine By CHELSEA J. CARTER,Associated Press Writer AP - Saturday, April 25 BAGHDAD - Back-to-back suicide bombings killed 60 worshippers as they streamed into Baghdad's most important Shiite shrine for Friday prayers, a day after Iraq's most deadly violence in more than a year. ADVERTISEMENT Dozens of Iranian pilgrims were again said to be among the dead. The two days of attacks _ both against civilian targets _ marked a troubling twist to what had already been a recent rise in suicide blasts, many of them against security forces. The bombings, typical of Sunni extremists linked with al-Qaida in Iraq, are raising fresh concerns about Iraqis increasingly take the lead role in protecting the capital and nearby areas as the Americans shift their focus and resources to Afghanistan. "It is just like a massacre took place," said Laith Ali, 35, who owns a shop near the tomb of Shiite saint Imam Mousa al-Kazim. The gold-domed shrine, a popular destination for pilgrims, is located in the northern neighborhood of Kazimiyah. "Where are the security precautions that the security officials are talking about?" Ali said. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki ordered a military task force to investigate the bombings, said military spokesman Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi. He said the battalion and company commanders responsible for the area were suspended for failing to provide adequate security around the shrine. The bombers detonated explosive belts within minutes of each other near separate gates of the tomb, said a police official. Another police official said the bombers struck shortly before the start of Friday prayers as worshippers streamed into the mosque. The attack left the bodies of the dead _ some of them burned _ scattered on the ground near the entrance of the shrine. Hours later, pools of blood streaked the sidewalks. Many of the wounded were taken to Kazimiyah Teaching Hospital, overwhelming the staff. AP Television News footage showed many victims, including women and children, forced to wait outside before they could be seen by medical staff. Among the dead were 25 Iranian pilgrims, said a police and a hospital official. Both said at least 125 people, including 80 Iranian pilgrims, were wounded. All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release the information. The U.S. military would not provide further details, saying the area around the shrine was patrolled by Iraqi security forces. The shrine has been a favored target of insurgents, most recently in early April when a bomb left in a plastic bag near the mosque killed seven people and wounded 23. In January, a man dressed as a woman blew himself up near the shrine, killing more than three dozen people and wounding more than 70. Imam Mousa al-Kazim is one of 12 Shiite saints. Hundreds of thousands of Shiites march to the shrine in Kazimiyah every year to commemorate his death in A.D. 799. Shiites believe al-Kazim is buried in the shrine. On Thursday, suicide bomb blasts tore through crowds waiting for food aid in central Baghdad and inside a roadside restaurant filled with Iranian pilgrims to the north in Diyala province. Eighty-eight people were killed Thursday, Iraq's deadliest day since March 8, 2008. In Tehran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi accused the attackers of trying to sabotage ties between Iraq's Shiite-dominated government and Shiite Iran, according to that country's official news agency. Iraq's Shiite majority _ oppressed under Saddam Hussein _ came to power after he was toppled, and Sunnis remain suspicious of the country's new leaders and their links to Iran. 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