A suicide bombing in Iraq has targeted the Shiite sacred city of Karbala, killing at least six civilians, in the latest attempt by the Islamic State group to distract from the government forces' offensive on the IS-held northern city of Mosul.
According to Interior Ministry spokesman Brigadier General Saad Maan, six suicide bombers tried to sneak into Karbala from its western outskirts earlier in the day but security forces detected and killed five of them.
The sixth attacker broke into a house in the city's Ayn al-Tamer neighbourhood, where he detonated his suicide vest, killing six people and wounding another six.
The attack came as hundreds of thousands of faithful Shiites have been walking to Karbala to commemorate the 7th century death of Imam Hussein, Prophet Muhammad's grandson and an iconic Shiite martyr.
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