Twenty dead and 45 wounded by two car bombs in Iraq.
Baghdad, July 26 .- At least twenty people were killed in Iraq and 45 others injured when two car bombs exploded in the road between the cities of Kerbala and Najaf, south of the country, sources told Ministry Interior.
The attacks were directed against pilgrims heading to a shrine of an industrial neighborhood south of Karbala, one of the main centers of, mortal gold, pilgrimage for Shiites.
The blasts took place to coincide with the celebration of the feast of Al Shaabania, often bringing together hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims who come to the shrine of Imam Hussein.
Police sources said that in order to ensure the security of Shiite faithful, have been displaced 30 000 agents in different, tera gold, places of the paths.
Today's twin bombings in Karbala came on the same day, in Baghdad, a suicide bomber blew up a minibus loaded with 128 kilos of explosives at the headquarters of the Emirati Al Iraquiya string, leaving six dead and twenty wounded.
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