By Xinhua
Baghdad : Two Iraqis were killed and four others injured in a bomb attack in Baghdad on Friday, a well-informed police source said.
“A roadside bomb detonated near furniture’s factory in Baghdad’s eastern neighborhood of Ur, killing two civilians and wounding four others,” the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The incident came as the Iraqi government had imposed a ban on vehicles in Baghdad, Diyala Province and all of the country’s southern provinces on the occasion of Ashura ceremonies, which started from 8 p.m. (1700 GMT) Thursday to 6 p.m. (1500 GMT) Saturday.
The Shiite religious festival of Ashura marks the death of Imamal-Hussein, Prophet Muhammad’s grandson and the third holiest Imam of the 12 Imams most revered by Shiite Muslims, who was killed in a battle named Taf in Karbala in the seventh century.
Also in the capital, the source said that police patrols collected three unidentified bodies dumped in different parts of Baghdad during the past 24 hours.
The bullet-ridden bodies were blindfolded and bound, showing signs of torture, he added.
Violence and daily gruesome finding of unidentified bodies continue in Baghdad despite the announcement of the U.S. and Iraqi officials about a steep drop of violence as a result of a major security plan aimed at checking the insurgency and sectarian strife.