Eighty people have been killed in a truck bombing at a petrol station south of Baghdad.
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attack, with a number of Shia pilgrims among the victims.
Officials said the target of the attack appears to have been a bus carrying the Iranian pilgrims heading home after taking part in a major Shia holiday in the holy city of Karbala.
A police official said: "At least seven buses with pilgrims were inside the petrol station at the time."
The blast struck in the village of Shomali near the city of Hilla, 75 miles southeast of the capital Baghdad.
IS claimed it carried out the attack in a brief statement put out on its Aamaq news agency which said the bomb was in a truck.
IS claimed it carried out the attack in a brief statement put out on its Aamaq news agency which said the bomb was in a truck.
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