A suicide car bomb exploded near a revered shrine in Karbala city on Saturday, killing eight people and wounding 36, police said. The golden dome and minarets of the Al-Abbas shrine didn't appear to be damaged in video footage shown on Iraqi state TV, but the powerful blast set many parked cars on fire in a nearby street, and two Iraqi men with bloody faces could be seen running through heavy black smoke past the body of another victim of the attack, the Associated Press reported.
