Bomber kills 11 Shi'ite pilgrims north of Baghdad - police


  • World
  • Monday, 29 Dec 2014

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 11 people and wounded 23 others when he detonated explosives in a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims walking north of Baghdad to the shrine city of Samarra, police and medical officials said.

The Shi'ite faithful had stopped at a tent serving pilgrims in Taji on Baghdad province's northern edge, the officials said.

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