Bombers kill 28 Shi’ites on eve of holy day

FOUR explosions ripped through Baghdad yesterday, killing at least 28 people and injuring dozens on the eve of Shi’ite Islam’s holiest festival.

It was the deadliest day since Iraq’s landmark elections last month.

Suicide bombers struck at two Shi’ite mosques as Friday prayers ended, another explosion occurred near a Shi’ite religious procession and a fourth attack, also carried out by a suicide bomber, blasted an Iraqi police and National Guard checkpoint in a Sunni neighbourhood.