CRI听力：Suicide Bomb Attacks Kills up to 57 in Iraq

 

A string of suicide bombings have killed 57 people and wounded nearly 300 others in one of this year's deadliest attacks in Iraq.

Suicide attackers killed at least 32 people and wounding over 100 after striking Shiite pilgrims taking part in a massive religious procession in Baghdad.

Police and health officials said the majority of the dead were women and children.

Doctor Faris was at a local hospital, where the injured were treated.

"We have received about 50 injured people. We transferred some of them to various hospitals. Now we have seven injured people being treated here. Regrettably, we received 25 dead bodies. All of them were from pilgrims."(Www.hxen.net)

The attacks occurred in quick succession as tens of thousands of Shiite worshippers streamed toward a shrine in northern Baghdad for an annual event marking the death of an eighth century saint.

In a separate attack on Monday, a suicide bomber assaulted a crowd of Kurdish people in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing 25 and wounded over 180.