Police in Iraq say explosives and mortar attacks have claimed the lives of six Shia pilgrims, inflicting injuries on 37 others across the country's capital, Press TV reported.
The casualties occurred on Tuesday while the victims were on pilgrimage to the shrine of Imam Musa ibn Jafar al-Kazim, the seventh of the twelve Shia Imams, Reuters reported.
Tension continues to take its toll on the Iraqi civilian in the eighth year of US military presence in the war-weary nation and despite the current presence of slightly more than 80,000 American troopers.