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Suicide bomb kills 7 pilgrims near Baghdad shrine


    BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed seven Shi'ite pilgrims and wounded 25 who were entering a revered Shi'ite shrine in northwestern Baghdad on Sunday , a source in the Iraqi army said.

    The explosion took place at a checkpoint outside the Imam Moussa shrine in Kadhamiya, a mainly Shi'ite area of Baghdad, as Iraqi Shi'ites prepared for the important Ashura ceremony later this week which marks the death of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammad.