Baghdad: At least 16 people were killed and 31 wounded by a car bomb in Iraq’s Hilla city during a major religious ritual, local police sources said on Monday.
“A car bomb was parked near a Shi’ite pilgrims’ procession inside the Nile area, and it killed 16 people, mostly women and children, and wounded 31 others,” a police source at Hilla hospital said.
Another police source confirmed the initial death toll.
The attack underscored Iraq’s fragile security as the last 10,000 American troops prepare to withdraw by the end of 2011, more than eight years after the invasion that ousted dictator Saddam Hussein.
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