At least 18 people have died this morning and another 55 were injured by exploding two car bombs in the Iraqi city of Kerbala, 100 km south of Baghdad. The most serious attack, which caused 12 dead and 21 wounded, was to a tour of Shia pilgrims who were in that city, to visit the holy sites for the religious community.Among those killed in the explosion are Iraqi soldiers, Iraqi officials said. Earlier today, a car bomb exploded in a parking Karbala has killed 6 people and injured 34 others. These days thousands of visitors are in the Shiite holy city of Karbala to participate in Al Arbainiya, the holiday that commemorates the forty days after the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Prophet Mohammed and the third most important for this community.
The attacks have been possible despite the deployment of 120,000 police and soldiers have set up these days in Karbala to protect the Shiite community, which has been subjected to numerous attacks by al Qaeda and other Sunni armed organizations in the past years. "For us it is difficult to control every inch of the province, there are waves of pilgrims," said an Army captain at the agency.
On Thursday, also in Karbala, 56 people were killed and 180 wounded in two suicide bombings in the north and south of that city.
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