Published: December 25, 2009
Nine people were killed and 30 wounded around Iraq on Friday. Much of the recent violence has been aimed at Shiites making their way to the holy city of Karbala for Ashura, which commemorates the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in A.D. 680. A roadside bomb aimed at Shiite pilgrims in the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City on Friday killed three people and wounded 20 others, the Iraqi police said. In Mosul, in northern Iraq, three census workers were killed by gunmen, and a police officer died after a rocket landed near a patrol in the city, the authorities said. Near the town of Rabia, northeast of Mosul, a car bomb exploded, killing a Kurdish pesh merga soldier and injuring 10 others. The police also found a body west of the city, of a woman who had apparently been strangled.
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