At least 22 people were killed as insurgents unleashed a string of bomb attacks across Iraq, mainly targeting Shiite Muslim pilgrims, extending a wave of deadly bloodshed into a second day.

Insurgents today blew up the two minarets of the famous Golden Dome Shiite shrine in Samarra, where a 2006 bombing unleashed a wave of sectarian violence that bloodied Iraq for more than a year.

A car bombed ripped through a commercial district in western Baghdad today, killing 25 people and wounding at least 80 others, in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in recent days.