KARBALA: A suicide bomber struck in an area between major shrines in the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Karbala yesterday, wounding 10 people, security and medical officials said.
Jamal Al-Din Shahristani, an official at the Imam Hussein shrine, said an engineer working on a project between the site and the Imam Abbas shrine blew himself up, causing casualties.
A police colonel and employee of a Karbala hospital put the toll from the bombing in the city south of Baghdad at 10 wounded.
Suicide bomber hits Iraq Shiite shrine city of Karbala
Suicide bomber hits Iraq Shiite shrine city of Karbala
