Bombing rocks Shia holy city in Iraq
Thirteen people have been injured in a bomb blast in the holy Shia city of Karbala in central Iraq. Hospital sources say one of the injured is in a serious condition.
Witnesses say the bomb was hidden in a package left on the street in the centre of the city near the Shrine of Abbas, a revered Shia imam.
The attack is the latest on Iraq's Shia majority since the US-led invasion of Iraq ousted Saddam Hussein in April last year and came on the same day as a suicide truck bombing on the occupation headquarters in Baghdad that killed at least 25.
"Around 10 pm (1900 GMT), an explosion shook al-Abbas street, just 100 metres (yards) from the shrine," said 30-year-old witness Ibrahim Turki.
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Bombing rocks Shia holy city in Iraq