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BAGHDAD — A car bomb exploded near a procession of Shiite Muslim pilgrims south of the holy city of Samarra on Thursday, killing nine people, including a child, and wounding 39 people, five of them children, a police official said.
The procession was headed for Samarra’s gold-domed shrine, where a bombing by insurgents in 2006 helped set off a sectarian war between Sunnis and Shiites in which tens of thousands of people were killed.
