Blasts Kill 28 In Iraq Shi’ite Cities

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Bomb blasts killed 28 people in southern Iraq on Thursday, Reuters reports:

Two explosions near a restaurant in the city of Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, killed 26 people.

 

In the city of Kerbala, a car bomb near a bus terminal where Shi’ite pilgrims usually gather killed another two people, a spokesman for the local health office said.

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