33 dead in Baghdad suicide attacks

BAGHDAD: A suicide bomber and a series of attacks in Baghdad have killed 33 Shiite pilgrims gathering for a major festival with 99 others wounded, Iraqi security officials say.

The suicide attack, in Adhamiyah, a Sunni district, killed 28 people, with 63 others wounded, an interior ministry official said.

The area is across the Tigris river from Kadhimiyah, an area named after Musa Kadhim, the seventh of 12 revered imams in Shiite Islam, whom pilgrims are honouring.

Five other pilgrims were killed and 36 wounded in separate bomb attacks, police said.