Dana Smillie
themes: faith
Karbala, Iraq
Shi'a pilgrims, bloody after cutting themselves with knives during the Ashura observances in Karbala, grieve outside the Shrine of Imam Hussein. Ashura is the holiest day on the Shi'ite calendar and hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from Iraq, Iran and other countries gathered in Karbala to participate in the Ashura rituals that were banned under the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Shi'a pilgrims, bloody after cutting themselves with knives during the Ashura observances in Karbala, grieve outside the Shrine of Imam Hussein. Ashura is the holiest day on the Shi'ite calendar and hundreds of thousands of pilgrims from Iraq, Iran and other countries gathered in Karbala to participate in the Ashura rituals that were banned under the regime of Saddam Hussein.
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