BAGHDAD/ Aswat al-Iraq: Two Karbala visitors were killed and 9 wounded due to mortar shells in Latifiya area, south west Baghdad, security sources said here today.
The source told Aswat al-Iraq that unknown persons shot unknown mortar shells against the visitors heading for Karbala holy shrines.
The 40th.
Day of Imam Hussein martyrdom is commemorated annually by the Shiite sect, not only in Iraq, but the world over.