BAGHDAD, (Reuters) – Twin car bombs killed at least 40 people and wounded 145 others on Friday in Iraq’s holy city of Kerbala as hundreds of thousands of Shi’ite pilgrims observed a major religious rite, health officials said.

The attack on the final and most important day of the Arbain festival was the third major strike this week against Shi’ite pilgrims amid a political furore over the banning of candidates, many of them Sunnis, from a March 7 election.

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