Iraq orders pilgrims to leave
2007-08-28 15:56
Kerbala - Iraqi police declared a curfew and ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the shrine city of Kerbala on Tuesday after bloody clashes erupted, city police chief Brigadier General Hamid Raad Shaker said.
Twenty-five people were killed in fierce clashes between security forces and gunmen in the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday, a senior security source in Baghdad said.
- AFP-Reuters
- AFP