Iraq violence feeds funeral businesses
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Back in 1982, Radhwan Mizaal Ali opened a tiny shop offering funeral supplies. Now he runs six shops, and business is booming.
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Thousands of mourners have attended funeral prayers for two of the victims of Sunday&#39;s blast at a Shia mosque in the Pakistani city of Lahore.
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A series of car bombings, ambushes and assassinations across the country&#39;s most restive regions Saturday killed several civilians, police and clerics.
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Six weeks before Iraq's nationwide vote, another blast of violence hit the country Sunday, including two deadly bombings that claimed dozens of lives and an ambush that killed three employees of Iraq's electoral commission.
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Police tightened security Sunday for the funeral of one of two prominent Sunni Muslim clerics whose murders on a busy Karachi street set off riots by supporters the previous day, officials said.
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Relatives wept as the remains of victims from a suicide bombing at a funeral were placed into coffins Wednesday, while police increased the attack's death toll by four to 36 killed in Baghdad's deadliest attack since August
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A suicide bomber killed at least 30 people and wounded 38 at a funeral in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday and the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital for months cast a pall over New Year celebrations.
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NAJAF, Iraq Checkpoints and other beefed-up security measures are in place as families of the latest car-bomb victims prepare for funerals in Najaf (NAH&#39;-jahf) and Karbala (KAHR&#39;-bah-lah).
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Mourners streamed past photographs and mementos at a funeral Wednesday for a woman killed during a teenage gunman's rage at a shopping mall. The service was the last memorial for the eight victims.
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BAGHDAD -- Hundreds of Shi'ite Muslims beating their chests in mourning accompanied 17 coffins through Baghdad's main Shi'ite district yesterday, demanding that militiamen be allowed to protect them after a wave of attacks blamed on Sunni Arab insurgents.
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A brutal attack is just the latest example of violence in the city, which has become the new focus of conflict in Iraq. BY EDMUND SANDERS.
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Jassim al-Kinani, a 34-year-old car mechanic, did all he could to follow Shiite Muslim traditions when his brother and three cousins were slain. But like so much in Iraq, the rituals of death have been knocked awry by violence.
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A bomb hidden in a parked car struck the funeral procession of a Sunni tribal leader who was gunned down earlier Thursday, killing at least 26 mourners as al-Qaida appeared to turn up its campaign of frightening its growing opposition into submission.
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Relatives sobbed Wednesday at the sight of flag-draped caskets containing the bodies of six Louisiana National Guardsmen killed by a bomb in Iraq.
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At least a dozen people die in another day of violence across Iraq, as the country prepares for Sunday's poll.
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Relatives of a policeman killed in an insurgent attack grieve during his funeral in Tikrit, Iraq, Tuesday Dec. 28, 2004. Twelve policemen died when gunmen attacked the station Tuesday.
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Some of the deadly events in Iraq on Monday, according to police.