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Seven dead, 50 injured in Iraq car blast targeting Iranian pilgrims
Mar 6, 2010, 9:10 GMT
Najaf, Iraq - Seven people were killed and at least 50 injured after a car bomb blast on Saturday morning in the city of Najaf, 180 kilometers south of Baghdad, Iraqi police announced.
Most of the victims were Iranian pilgrims.
A security source told the German Press Agency dpa that 'a car laden with explosives was parked in the garage containing tour buses carrying Iranian pilgrims, about one kilometre from the shrine of Imam Ali bin Abi Talib.'
'The car exploded, killing seven people, four of them Iranian, and wounding 50, including 37 Iranians. Four buses were burned.'
The attack comes a day ahead of Iraq's parliamentary elections.
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