Dozens of people were killed today when two car bombs and a suicide bomber struck outside a textile factory.

Baghdad was busy today after a two-day lockdown during a Shiite religious commemoration that was disrupted by sniper attacks on pilgrims in another spasm of sectarian bloodletting.

At least 20 people were killed and dozens more were wounded when snipers opened fire from rooftops and a cemetery in a series of attacks on a Shiite religious procession in Baghdad.

Snipers firing from rooftops and a cemetery today killed at least 16 people and injured 230 in a series of attacks on a religious procession in Baghdad, officials said.

Iraqi officials today said 16 people were killed in two bombings in Baghdad that targeted a petrol station and a nearby market.