Car bombings kill two in Iraq holy city


Baghdad, July 15 (IANS) Two car bombs rocked Iraq's Karbala holy city Friday, killing at least two people and injuring 15, police said.

A police official told Xinhua that the cars exploded at a garage near a Shiite shrine in Karbala, some 100 km from the capital city Baghdad.

Several vehicles near the blast site were damaged, he said.

On April 14, 2007, a car bombing near a Shiite shrine killed 47 and wounded over 150.

The city - best known as the location of the Battle of Karbala in 680 A.D. - is amongst the holiest cities for Shiite Muslims.

  

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