BAGHDAD — Iraq tightened security Saturday at major Shiite shrines in response to two days of suicide attacks targeting worshipers — including one at a revered Baghdad tomb that was the deadliest bombing this year.
More than 150 people, many of them Iranian pilgrims, died in the attacks Thursday and Friday.
The number of dead in Friday’s attack by two female suicide bombers at Baghdad’s shrine of Imam Mousa al- Kazim reached 71, an Iraqi police official said Saturday.
A hospital official confirmed the toll, adding that 125 were also wounded in the bombing.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has ordered a military task force to investigate Friday’s attack. He also suspended the area commanders for failing to provide adequate security around the shrine. The Associated Press
