Baghdad, Oct 6 (IANS): At least one Shia pilgrim was killed and seven others wounded in a roadside bomb explosion Sunday in the northern part of Iraq's capital Baghdad, Xinhua reported citing an interior ministry source.
The attack occurred in the afternoon when the roadside bomb went off near a crowd of Shia pilgrims in Seliekh district in the northern part of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The attack came as thousands of Shia pilgrims gathered at the mausoleum of Imam Musa al-Kadhim in Baghdad's northern district of Kadhmiyah to commemorate the death of the seventh of the most revered 12 Shia Imams.
Kadhim's tomb is in a golden-domed mosque in the centre of the old part of the holy Shia Kadhimiya district.