Pilgrims attacked in Iraq as troop pullouts announced

A suicide car bomber blew himself up yesterday near an Islamic shrine, killing five Iraqis in the latest attack on Shiite Muslim pilgrims marking a major religious holiday.

The blast in Tuz Khormato, 55 miles south of Kirkuk, killed three civilians, including a child, and two soldiers helping toguard the shrine yesterday, police reported. Sixteen people were wounded, hospital officials said.