(6 Mar 2007)
1.Various fire truck and rescue services rushing to scene of bombing
2. Man cleaning up debris
3. Blood on ground
4. Shoes of victims on the ground
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Salim Mohamed Ali Abbas, Witness:
"I was part of this procession here, the first one (explosion) happened back there (points behind him). The first one happened there, we all ran over and were attending to the dead and injured when the next one (explosion) happened right here. In the procession I was a part of. (Q: Can you estimate the number of casualties?) (Other man in the crowd answers: '200!') no no not 200! Maybe about 30 casualties dead over there (points behind him) we don't know how many died here. (Third man in the crowd shouts: '150!') no no around 20 or 30."
6. Men on top of van, carrying coffin, mourning
STORYLINE:
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up Tuesday in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims streaming toward the holy city of Karbala, killing more than 90 people in one of several attacks targeting the faithful ahead of Arbaeen, the marking of the end of a 40-day mourning period after the death of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson, Hussein.
The coordinated attack hit a main street in Hillah, about 100 kilometers south of Baghdad, according to an Iraqi police captain.
He said 93 people were killed and 164 wounded.
An Associated Press cameraman at the scene said the bombers struck a crowd of pilgrims filing into a pedestrian area.
Ambulances and Iraqi police were swarming the area and there was no immediate sign of U.S. forces.
Pools of blood could be seen on the ground and the shoes of victims were piled up at the scene.
At least 24 Iraqis were killed in other violence Tuesday, including eight Shiite pilgrims killed in the south Baghdad neighbourhood of Dora when gunmen pumped bullets into a
minibus they were riding in.
A Shiite parliament member said in past years, Shiite militiamen "played a role in protecting the pilgrims and the attacks were fewer and less effective, but this year things are different," a barbed reference to the US-Iraqi security crackdown which has targeted militias.

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