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| Bomb kills many in Iraq holy city | Bomb kills many in Iraq holy city |
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| A car bomb has killed at least 55 people and injured about 70 in the Iraqi city of Karbala, in the second such attack in two weeks. | A car bomb has killed at least 55 people and injured about 70 in the Iraqi city of Karbala, in the second such attack in two weeks. |
| The city houses two of Shia Islam's holiest shrines and reports say the bomb went off on a busy street as people headed to pray. | The city houses two of Shia Islam's holiest shrines and reports say the bomb went off on a busy street as people headed to pray. |
| The bomb exploded near the golden-domed mosque of the Imam Abbas shrine, which is protected by a barrier. | |
| A suicide bomber killed at least 42 people in Karbala on 14 April. | |
| Iraqi television images from Karbala showed a man running down a smoke-filled street holding a lifeless baby above his head. | |
| Ambulances had rushed to the scene, in a crowded area full of shops and restaurants in the city, 100km (70 miles) south-west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. | |
| Angry people gathered at the blast site, many of them searching frantically for missing relatives, The Associated Press reports. | |
| Some began to throw stones at the police, accusing them of failing to protect the people. | |
| Police fired weapons in the air to disperse the crowds, the agency says. | |
| Earlier, the powerful Shia cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, criticised US President George W Bush for refusing to establish a timetable for a US troop withdrawal from Iraq. | |
| In a statement read out on his behalf in the Iraqi parliament, the cleric said the situation in Iraq could not be any worse following an American pull-out than it was already. | |
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