**Two suicide bombers have killed at least 10 people and injured 25 in the outskirts of Karbala in Iraq, reports from Iraqi police say.**One report, quoting the city’s governor, says that 27 people died.
Approximately a million Shia Muslim pilgrims are in the city to visit the Imam Hussein shrine at the end of a Arbaeen commemorations.
The bombings raise fears of heightened sectarian violence before Iraq’s March parliamentary elections.
Friday is the last and most important day of the Arbaeen, 40 days of mourning for the death of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson.
This year’s pilgrimage to Karbala had already been hit twice by bombers.
A bomb planted on a cart pulled by a motorbike killed at least 20 pilgrims on Wednesday as they streamed into Karbala.
And more than 40 pilgrims were killed on the outskirts of the capital Baghdad on Monday as they began the long walk to Karbala.