Delapan peziarah tewas di Baghdad ketika minibus mereka diberondong tembakan oleh orang-orang bersenjata tak dikenal, sementara 15 orang lagi tewas dan 47 lain cedera dalam tiga serangan bom mobil terpisah di sejumlah daerah lain di kota tersebut.
In Baghdad, eight pilgrims died when their minibus was raked with bullets by unknown gunmen in the Sunni district of Dura, while 15 more were killed and 47 wounded in three separate car bombings in other parts of the city.