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[Breaking News] Police: Bombs kill 7 pilgrims in BaghdadBAGHDAD ”” A series of roadside bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims returning from the southern holy city of Karbala struck the Iraqi capital Friday, killing at least seven people, Iraqi police and medical officials said. The attacks are the latest in a series that have targeted Shiites, raising concerns that insurgents are stepping up attacks against Shiite pilgrims, hoping to re-ignite sectarian violence that nearly tore the country apart in 2006 and 2007.

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[Breaking News] Iraqi police: Roadside bomb targets bus in Baghdad, kills 4 Shiite ...: 18 hurt by Baghdad bomb targeting Shiite pilgrimsBAGHDAD ”” Eighteen people were injured Thursday in an explosion that targeted a minibus transporting Shiite pilgrims to a holy shrine to commemorate the death of a revered imam. The roadside bomb wounded 18 men from Najaf in southern Iraq and damaged the bus, which was taking them to the shrine in the northern Baghdad neighborhood of Kazimiyah, according to a Baghdad emergency police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to talk to the media.

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