[Excerpt: Witnesses said the car had tried to enter a police recruiting centre but the street was sealed off so it was driven instead into the nearby bus station, where it exploded in a ball of fire....Ten people were killed and 40 others wounded, said doctor Ali Adawi of Karbala general hospital, while police said more than than 10 minibuses were destroyed.] _http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11737808%255E1702,00.html_ (http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11737808%5E1702,00.html) 10 killed in car bombing >From correspondents in Karbala December 20, 2004 TEN people were killed when a car bomb exploded today at a bus station in the Iraqi Shiite shrine city of Karbala in the second deadly attack there in less than a week. The attack happened just a short distance from the tomb of Imam Hussein, the Muslim prophet Mohamed's grandson and one of the most revered figures in the Shiite faith. Witnesses said the car had tried to enter a police recruiting centre but the street was sealed off so it was driven instead into the nearby bus station, where it exploded in a ball of fire. Ten people were killed and 40 others wounded, said doctor Ali Adawi of Karbala general hospital, while police said more than than 10 minibuses were destroyed. A bomb attack last Wednesday near the Imam Hussein mausoleum in Karbala left 10 people dead and 40 wounded. The bombings raised fears of an upsurge in violence in the predominantly Shiite communities south of Baghdad ahead of next month's national elections. Iraq's Shiites make up 60 per cent of Iraq's 25 million population and are expected to dominate the next government. The bombings are the first major violence in Karbala since clashes earlier this year between US-led forces and supporters of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Last March, a series of bombings around Karbala killed more than 100 people gathered for the Shiite religious festival of Ashura when Muslims mourn Imam Hussein's death in 680 AD. - with Associated Press Agence France-Presse
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