Suicide bomber kills 32 on Iraqi pilgrimage route

13/02/2009 - 9:37

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 32 people and wounded 84 others on Friday south of Baghdad on a major Shi'ite religious pilgrimage route, police said.

The attack in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, comes a day after a bomb killed eight people in the southerly Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala, where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims are heading to mark Arbain, one of the most important dates in the Shi'ite religious calendar.

(Writing by Mohammed Abbas; Editing by Kevin Liffey)