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| A car bomb has exploded in the central Iraqi city of Najaf, killing at least eight people, police have said. | A car bomb has exploded in the central Iraqi city of Najaf, killing at least eight people, police have said. |
| The suicide bomber triggered the explosion at a police checkpoint in Maydan Square, near Najaf's Old City. | |
| Several people were reported injured in the attack, which took place near a market as it filled with shoppers. | Several people were reported injured in the attack, which took place near a market as it filled with shoppers. |
| Najaf is a place of pilgrimage for Shia Muslims, the site of the mausoleum of Imam Ali and the home of several important clerics. | |
| Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani and radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr are based in the city, some 100 miles (160km) south of the capital Baghdad. | |
| Police officers were among those killed in the attack, which happened as they were searching the vehicle for explosives, Reuters reports. |