Baghdad - At least 10 people were killed and another 12 were injured on Monday in two bombings in Baghdad and a shooting in Mosul
Two policemen were killed and six other people were wounded in an explosion in downtown Baghdad, the second to hit the capital on Monday, Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency reported, citing police sources.
VOI said the bomb went off near Kahramana Square in central Baghdad.
It was the second bombing of the day, after a suicide bomber killed himself and four others, the news agency reported.
Baghdad - Thousands of Iraqi Shiites gathered in the central Iraqi city of Karbala on Wednesday in an annual religious observance known as Ashura.
The pilgrimage starts on the first day of the Islamic Hijri year and culminates on the 10th day, known as Ashura, when Shiites mourn the death of Imam Hussein, grandson of Islam's prophet Mohammed, at the 7th century battle of Karbala.
Men marched down the streets of Karbala, whipping their backs with chains and sobbing as blood covered their bodies and faces. Others tapped their chests in a steady rhythm.