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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/car-bombs-kill-51-pilgrims-in-iraq.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Iraqi security forces stand at the site of a bombing that also upturned a fruit stand in Karbala, Iraq (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-car-bombs-kill-51-pilgrims-in-iraq.jpg" alt="Iraqi security forces stand at the site of a bombing that also upturned a fruit stand in Karbala, Iraq (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>At least 51 people have died after a two of car bombs crashed through security checkpoints ringing the Iraqi holy city of Karbala.</p>
<p>Most of the victims were Shiite pilgrims travelling to observe yearly religious rituals.</p>
<p>It is the latest in a wave of attacks in recent days as insurgents test Iraqi security forces ahead of the planned US withdrawal at the end of the year.</p>
<p>There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the bombings bore the hallmark of al Qaida and other Sunni-dominated extremist groups. They frequently target Shiite pilgrimages in the hope of re-igniting sectarian violence that brought Iraq to the brink of civil war just a few years ago.</p>
<p>Authorities estimate as many as 183 people were injured in the near-simultaneous blasts set off by suicide bombers driving cars packed with explosives.</p>
<p>Crowds of pilgrims headed to a Karbala hospital to donate blood for the wounded. Authorities said 11 soldiers and policemen were among the dead.</p>
<p>The series of attacks this week shattered a relative calm since the formation last month of a new government under Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite whose family comes from the Karbala area.</p>
<p>The bombings were the latest in a three-day barrage of attacks across Iraq that have killed more than 120 people since Tuesday.</p>
<p>Earlier on Thursday, a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-packed car into the front gate of a police headquarters in the eastern Iraqi city of Baqouba, killing three.</p>
<p>Another, earlier strike on Shiite pilgrims walking to Karbala from Baghdad killed one and wounded 10.</p>
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