Wave of bombings across Iraq leaves more than 70 dead - Telegraph

Wave of bombings across Iraq leaves more than 70 dead - Telegraph: The second devastating attack in a fortnight exposed the country’s religious faultlines amidst a political crisis that has pitted Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq’s Shia prime minister, against his Sunni rivals.

On a day of carnage the single deadliest attack came in the desert near the southern city of Nasiriya, where a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest in the middle of a crowd of devout Shias on a pilgrimage.

At least 45 people were killed in the attack, the police said. Photographs from the scene showed relatives cradling the corpses of young men strewn across a blood-stained road, their belongings scattered around them.


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