Karzai returns to visit site of shrine attack
Afghan President Hamid Karzai cut short a European trip and returned to Kabul today to visit the scores of wounded and the bereaved families of those killed in an unprecedented sectarian assault on a Shiite shrine in the capital.
A suicide bomber killed 56 Shiite worshippers and injured more than 160 others yesterday outside a shrine where hundreds had gathered to commemorate the holiday of Ashoura, which honours the death of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in 680 AD.
