Suicide bomber hits Iraq Shiite shrine city of Karbala

KARBALA: A suicide bomber struck in an area between major shrines in the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Karbala yesterday, wounding 10 people, security and medical officials said.
Jamal Al-Din Shahristani, an official at the Imam Hussein shrine, said an engineer working on a project between the site and the Imam Abbas shrine blew himself up, causing casualties.
A police colonel and employee of a Karbala hospital put the toll from the bombing in the city south of Baghdad at 10 wounded.