At least 30 Iraqi pilgrims killed in attacks
At least 30 Iraqi pilgrims killed in attacks
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At least 30 Shia Muslim pilgrims have been killed in a double suicide bombing in the Iraqi city of Karbala.
The attacks, which left another 95 people injured, occurred on Friday as around a million Shia Muslims visited the city on a pilgrimage to the Imam Hussein shrine.
Also today, at least 23 people were killed in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi after a group of Shias were targeted on the way to a religious festival.
Police in Karbala said the attack on Friday, the last and most important day of the Arbaeen religious festival, had involved two cars filled with explosives detonated either side of a bridge across which pilgrims were making their way in and out of the city.
The attacks came despite heightened security in the city as millions of people converge on Karbala.
Iraq has already witnessed a number of attacks during the last week, with at least 20 people killed in a bomb blast on Wednesday and more than 40 killed on the outskirts of the capital Baghdad as pilgrims prepared to make their way to Karbala.