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Bombing against Shiite worshippers |
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Iraq,shiite |
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 Baghdad:Two men were killed and 24 people,
including women and children, were wounded in a bomb attack
against a mourning ceremony in Baghdad today as Shiite
worshippers participated in Ashura rituals.
The bomb exploded in the eastern Baghdad neighbourhood of
Mashtal, a police officer said, speaking on condition of
anonymity. Among the wounded were four women and five
children.
The 10-day Ashura rituals commemorate the killing of
Shiite Imam Hussein by armies of the Sunni caliph Yazid in
680.
Ashura, which means tenth in Arabic, falls on the tenth
day of the Muslim month of Muharram. The festival's climax
this year falls on December 27.
Tradition holds that Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet
Mohammed, was decapitated and his body mutilated by Yazid's
armies |
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Updated :
Thursday, 24 Dec 2009, 11:51 [IST] |
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