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2nd LD: 10 Iranian pilgrims killed in Iraq suicide attack: IRNA

Xinhua, November 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

Ten Iranians were killed in the two suicide attacks on Iranian pilgrims at a parking lot in Iraq's Samarra city on Sunday, official IRNA news agency reported.

An earlier report by IRNA had put death toll of the Iranian pilgrims at seven and wounded Iranians at 61.

Some of the injured people were transferred to the Iraqi capital of Baghdad for further treatments, Mousa Esmaeili, the Iranian representative for reconstructing religious Shrines in Samarra, told IRNA.

A diplomatic delegation from Iran's embassy in Iraq have travelled to Samarra to facilitate the transfer of the other wounded people to Iran, he added.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman, Bahram Qasemi strongly denounced the Sunday terrorist attacks in Iraq and said that Iran will remain by the side of the Iraqi government and nation in their fight against terrorism.

The death toll from two bombings and a gunfire attack that hit Iraq's Salahudin province on Sunday rose to 43, including the Iranian pilgrims, a provincial security source told Xinhua. Endit