Iraq bomb death toll rises to 38

04/01/2009 - 9:34

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The death toll in a suicide attack outside a revered Shi'ite shrine in northwestern Baghdad on Sunday rose to 38 dead and 55 wounded, a source in the Iraqi army said.

The explosion took place at a checkpoint outside the Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine in Kadhimiya, a mainly Shi'ite area of Baghdad, as Shi'ites prepared to mark the Ashura holiday later this week commemorating the death of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammad.