A car bombing in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf has left 23 people injured.

A suicide bomber detonated a belt of explosives near a highly-revered Shiite shrine in southern Iraq today, killing at least 33 people and injuring 108.

A car bomb blast during a funeral ceremony today in the Shiite holy city of Najaf killed 30 people and injured 65, a hospital official said.

At least 22 Iraqis, eight US troops and one Salvadoran soldier died in one of the worst days of violence in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein