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Iraqi woman bomber kills 35 Shiite pilgrims in Iraq
AFP - Saturday, February 14
HILLA, Iraq (AFP) - - A female suicide bomber dressed in a black abaya on Friday killed 35 Shiite pilgrims, mostly women and children, who had stopped to eat as they made their way to a religious ceremony south of Baghdad.
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The woman blew herself up in a tent set up to feed the worshippers as they travelled on foot along the 110-kilometre (70-mile) route south from the capital to the holy city of Karbala.
It was the deadliest attack in Iraq for almost six weeks, since a suicide bomber, initially said to be a woman but later identified as a man, killed 35 people near a Shiite shrine in the Kadhimiyah district of Baghdad on January 4.
Interior ministry spokesman Abdul Karim Khalaf said 35 people were killed and 68 wounded, almost all women and children, in Friday's attack in Iskandiriyah, but warned that the toll could rise.
"The two attacks bear the imprint of Al-Qaeda," he said, referring also to an attack on Thursday that killed eight Shiite worshippers and wounded more than 50 near Karbala's revered Imam Hussein shrine.
A blast near the same shrine 11 months ago left 43 dead.
Captain Mohammed al-Awadi of the police force for Babil province, of which Hilla is the capital, said the bomber had hidden her explosives under an abaya, the traditional Muslim head-to-toe black garment for women.
She blew herself up among a crowd of women and children just after midday (0900 GMT), he said, in what was the third straight day of deadly attacks on Shiites heading to Karbala.
"The explosion was so strong it injured people outside the tent," said Amir Mohammed, brother of one of the casualties hospitalised in Hilla, and who himself was in the area at the time.
A doctor at Hilla General Hospital, where dozens of ambulances ferried the casualties, said most of the survivors had head and chest wounds. All 17 dead taken to that hospital were women and children.
The use of female suicide bombers in abayas has become a feared terror tactic in Iraq.
Earlier this month, police announced they had arrested a woman who had confessed to recruiting more than 80 such suicide bombers and who helped orchestrate dozens of attacks.
Iskandiriyah lies within what used to be known as "the triangle of death" where Sunni fighters from Al-Qaeda, concealed in date tree groves, would launch deadly attacks on Shiites who ventured into the mainly farming area.
Last February, a suicide bomber in Iskandiriyah, which lies 40 kilometres (25 miles) south of the capital, killed 43 Shiite pilgrims and wounded more than 60 others.
Millions of pilgrims are travelling to Karbala for Arbaeen, a ceremony to mark 40 days after the Ashura anniversary of the killing of Imam Hussein by Sunni caliph Yazid's armies in AD 680.
Karbala provincial Governor Akeel al-Khazali told a news conference on Friday that five million have already arrived in the city, including 110,000 from abroad.
On Wednesday, deadly bombings again targeting Shiites near a Baghdad bus station killed 16 people as violence across Iraq claimed at least 27 lives and shattered a relative lull since largely peaceful provincial elections on January 31.
Iraq has experienced steadily improving security in the past year, but the latest attacks have underscored the country's fragile situation.
Shiite pilgrims heading to Karbala for Arbaeen have been targeted and killed by Sunni insurgent groups in past years, adding to sectarian bloodshed that has seen tens of thousands killed since the US-led invasion of March 2003.
On Friday, an Iraqi army general and his son were found shot dead at their apartment in a mainly Sunni Muslim district on Friday, interior and defence ministry officials said.
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Thousands of Shiite pilgrims are travelling to the holy city of Karbala for Arbaeen. A woman suicide bomber dressed in a black abaya blew herself up in a crowd of women and children Shiite pilgrims south of the Iraqi capital on Friday, killing 35 worshippers, officials have said.
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