Baghdad snipers kill at least 16

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.

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.

Four gunmen were also killed as hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims came under attack when they walked through Sunni territory.

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