Attacks kill 112 Shi'ite pilgrims in Iraq
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HILLA, Iraq  - Insurgents killed 112 Shi'ite pilgrims streaming to the holy Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday, including nearly 80 after two suicide bombers blew themselves up in one crowded street lined with tents.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Suicide car bombers hit Iraq's  two main Shi'ite holy cities, Kerbala and Najaf, killing at  least 23 people and wounding dozens more Sunday, six weeks to  the day before an historic election.
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Three bomb attacks at markets in central Baghdad killed at least 76 people on Monday as Iraqis marked the first anniversary of a Shi'ite shrine bombing that pitched the country to the brink of civil war.
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Two suicide bombers attack a group of Shia pilgrims in central Iraq, killing at least 47 people, police say.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Mortars killed eight people as   hundreds of thousands of pilgrims converged on an Iraqi holy   city on Friday for a religious festival where Shi'ite leaders   renewed demands for sweeping new powers in their region.
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At least 43 people are killed and 112 wounded in a series of rocket and bomb attacks in Baghdad.
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A suicide car bomber killed at least 13  Shi'ites northeast of Baghdad and gunmen shot dead nine people  in a Shi'ite bakery in the capital in the latest sectarian  attacks following the Jan. 30 election.
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Two suicide bombers turned a procession of Shiite pilgrims into a blood-drenched stampede Tuesday, killing scores with a first blast and then claiming more lives among fleeing crowds. At least 106 were killed amid a wave of deadly strikes against Shiites heading for a solemn religious ritual.
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Insurgents ambushed Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, killing five and wounding 10, a police source said.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims fled Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday after a day of fierce gunbattles near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines killed 52 people during an annual religious rite.
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A suicide car bomber killed at least 13 Shi'ites northeast of Baghdad and gunmen shot dead nine people in a Shi'ite bakery in the capital in the latest sectarian attacks following the Jan. 30 election.
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At least 115 people have been killed in a series of bomb blasts in the Shia area of Sadr City, Iraqi sources say.
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Assailants struck Shiite worshippers in three Iraqi cities Tuesday, killing at least 39 people in bombings and ambushes during the climax of ceremonies marking Ashoura, the holiest day in the Shiite calendar. In apparent retaliation, mortar shells slammed into predominantly Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad hours later, killing at least five people and wounding 20, officials said.
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BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomber turned a venerable book market into a deadly inferno and gunmen targeted Shi'ite pilgrims yesterday as suspected Sunni insurgents brought major bloodshed back into the lap of their main Shi'ite rivals. At least 38 people died in the blast and seven pilgrims were killed.
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BAGHDAD -- Bombers struck Shi'ite worshipers in two cities yesterday and gunmen ambushed a busload of pilgrims in a series of attacks that killed at least 58 people as more than 2 million Shi'ites jammed major shrines for ceremonies marking Ashoura, the holiest day of the Shi'ite calendar.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims defied bombers and gunmen to flock to the holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, the day after scores were killed in a string of attacks.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police killed three people in clashes with pilgrims in Iraq's city of Kerbala, where tens of thousands of Shi'ites have gathered for one of the holiest days on the Shi'ite calendar.