By NNN-KUNA
Baghdad : Five people were killed and eight others were wounded on Saturday when a blast ripped through Najaf’s Kufa district, 160 km south of Baghdad, police sources said.
The sources told KUNA that the preliminary count showed five civilians dead and eight wounded in the blast, which occurred at a central market.
Medical sources expected the toll to rise.
Meanwhile, a Najaf bomb expert said the explosion was the result of an explosive device.
A booby-trapped minibus had exploded in a crowded Kufa market in May, killing 10 people and wounding 30 others.
The district is home to the Kufa Grand Mosque where Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr leads the Friday noon prayers.
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