9 martyred, More Than 90 Injured in Karbala Blasts

More than 9 people were martyred and some 90 others wounded in a rash of bomb attacks in Iraq's holy city of Karbala south of Baghdad on Sunday, sources reported.

According to Xinhua, police sources said that the first blast occurred at about 9:30 a.m. (06:30 GMT) when a bomb attached to a car parking outside the passport and identity card office in central Karbala, some 110 km south of Baghdad, detonated.
Minutes later, a second blast ripped through the scene of the first blast, the source added.

Also, the source noted that two blasts in a quick succession followed after about 20 minutes when Iraqi security forces spread at the scene of the earlier two blasts.

Iraqi security forces sealed off the scene and blocked all the roads leading to the heavily populated area in central the city which also includes Karbala's provincial council and the provincial police headquarters, the source said.