Scores feared dead in Iraq blasts

Scores of people were feared killed after several explosions hit major Shiite shrines in the Iraqi city of Karbala and in Baghdad today where thousands of pilgrims were gathered to for a religious festival.

In Karbala, five blasts went off almost simultaneously near two major Shiite shrines, throwing bodies in all directions and sending crowds of pilgrims into a panic in the city 55 miles south of Baghdad.