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Bombings kill 20

At least 20 people were killed and 75 wounded on Friday when two car bombs blew up in Iraq's holy city of Karbala as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims observed a major religious rite, hospital sources said.

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