{"id":52,"date":"2010-02-02T13:15:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=52"},"modified":"2010-02-02T13:15:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:15:50","slug":"deadly-blast-hits-iraq-pilgrims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/02\/02\/52\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadly blast hits Iraq pilgrims"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"iraq-karbala\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/iraq-karbala.jpg\" width=\"235\" height=\"180\" \/>At least 54 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in an attack by a suspected female suicide bomber in Baghdad, an interior ministry official has said.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The attack took place on Monday amid a procession by Shia Muslims who were on a pilgrimage to the southern city of Karbala, 80km southwest of the Iraqi capital, for the religious rite of Arbaeen.<br \/>Major-General Qassim Atta, the spokesman for the Baghdad operational command, said: &#8220;At 11.45am (0845 GMT), a woman wearing an explosives-filled belt blew herself up in the middle of a crowd of pilgrims going to Karbala.&#8221;<br \/>Iraqi authorities lack enough policewomen to conduct searches at most checkpoints, and security forces have been reluctant to use bomb-sniffing dogs against people because of cultural sensitivities.<br \/>&#8220;We informed all checkpoints to be careful and to intensify the search procedures,&#8221; Atta said.<br \/>Hundreds of thousands of worshippers, beating their heads and chests in ritual mourning, pour into Karbala for the rite, many walking for hundreds of kilometres.<br \/>Several hours later a roadside bomb in the district of Doura, in southern Baghdad, wounded 12 pilgrims, an interior ministry source said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shia rite<\/strong><br \/>Arbaeen is a Shia religious observation that occurs 40 days after the Day of Ashoura, the commemoration of the martyrdom of Hussein bin Ali, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad. <br \/>Thousands of troops and police have been deployed to protect worshippers as they walk towards the Imam Hussein shrine.<br \/>During a pilgrimage last February, a female suicide bomber attacked a tent<br \/>filled with women and children resting during the walk to Karbala, killing 40 people and wounding 60 others. <br \/>A month before that, a suicide bomber dressed in women&#8217;s clothing and hiding among Iranian pilgrims killed more than three dozen people outside a mosque in Baghdad&#8217;s Shia neighbourhood of Kazimiyah.<br \/>Saad Muttalibi, an adviser to the Iraqi council of ministers, told Al Jazeera that protecting the large number of pilgrims was always going to be a challenging task.<br \/>&#8220;It is almost impossible to protect six million civilians,&#8221; he said referring to the pilgrims. <br \/>&#8220;The problem that we have is that the Americans have released a number of prisoners from their prisons straight into society without allowing the Iraqi government to do further interrogations to check to the validity of their innocence.<br \/>&#8220;The other problem is that the Iraqi security forces are not doing enough in combating terrorism in harder way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 54 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in an attack by a suspected female suicide bomber in Baghdad, an interior ministry official has said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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