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Baghdad, Iraq -- The death toll from a car bomb explosion in Basra has increased to at least 12, the Iraqi interior ministry said Tuesday.
At least 39 people were wounded when the car bomb exploded Monday in a busy commercial district in the western part of the city, the ministry said.
Car bombings targeting religious pilgrims in two major Shiite cities in Iraq also killed 11 people Monday, the Interior Ministry said.
On a crowded street in the Iraqi city of Karbala, a blast killed at least 10 people and wounded 38 others, the ministry said. The bomb went off at one of the main entrances to the city where buses carrying Iranian pilgrims stop.
In Najaf, at least one person was killed and 10 others wounded in a bombing, the ministry said. The parked car bomb targeted buses carrying Iranian pilgrims at the road leading to Najaf's old city.