- Title: IRAQ: Woman suicide bomber kills 40 in holy Iraqi city
- Date: 18th March 2008
- Summary: (BN13) KERBALA, IRAQ (MARCH 17, 2008) (REUTERS): FIRE TRUCK AND PEOPLE AT SCENE IRAQI SOLDIERS AND PEOPLE AT BLAST SITE WRAPPED BODIED ON THE GROUND WITH PEOPLE STANDING NEAR PEOPLE WRAPPING A DEAD BODY WITH PEOPLE GATHERED AT THE SCENE PEOPLE CARRYING A BODY TO VEHICLE PEOPLE AND FIRE FIGHTERS AT THE SCENE SOLDIERS FIRE FIGHTERS AND POLICEMEN AT THE SCENE BLOOD STAINS O
- Embargoed: 2nd April 2008 13:00
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- Location: Iraq
- Country: Iraq
- Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
- Reuters ID: LVAB04XS45RHS93P16D0KCDQU2T
- Story Text: A female suicide bomber killS 40 people and wounds 71 in a rare attack in the holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala in southern Iraq.
A female suicide bomber killed 40 people and wounded 71 on Monday (March 27) in a rare attack in the holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala in southern Iraq, security and hospital officials said.
The attack took place in a cafe for day labourers in the centre of the city close to the Imam Hussein shrine, one of the holiest sites in Shi'ite Islam, police said.
Emergency services came to take the dead and wounded to hospital, leaving pools of blood behind at the destroyed cafe, a Reuters witness said.
Relatives of those caught in the blast wailed and screamed, he said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but the U.S. military says Sunni Islamist al Qaeda, which considers Iraq's majority Shi'ites to be heretics, is increasingly using women in a stepped-up campaign of suicide bombings. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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