Iraq: Dozens Killed And Wounded When A Truck Bombed At A Gathering Of Buses Carrying Shia Pilgrims

Tens of dead and wounded, mostly Shiites, on Thursday November 24, when a truck bomb inside a gas station, southeast of Baghdad where accumulate buses carrying Shia pilgrims, mostly from Iran, were in Karbala.

While stated by the AFP news agency head of the security committee in the province of Babylon, Falah Radi said that "there are at least 70 people, less than a dozen of them are Iraqis, Iranians and the rest" in the bombing, which adopted the "Islamic state" responsibility.




Reported by Reuters news agency, citing medical sources and other police put the death toll in the blast reached 80 dead and at least 20 wounded.

The explosion in the Shomali village, located 120 kilometers southeast of Baghdad and about 80 kilometers to the southeast of Karbala occurred.

It was stated by the AFP news agency Radi that "bomber driving a tanker blew himself up among a large buses in addition to the two minibuses inside the gas station," referring also to the presence.

A lieutenant colonel told AFP on the scene said that "at least seven buses were inside the station the moment of the explosion."

Meanwhile, a source in the police intelligence said that "these buses carrying Iranian pilgrims and the Bahrainis and the Iraqis," pointing out that ambulances and firefighters rushed to the scene.

A witness named Moussa Omran told AFP "there was Iranian, and also the people of Basra and Nasiriyah in Iraq."

Millions of Shiite pilgrims were Iraqis, Arabs and foreigners live! on Monday, the anniversary of the death of Imam Hussein in the Iraqi city of Karbala.