 A suicide car bomber killed 51 people and wounded 70 in the holy Iraqi Shi'ite city of Kerbala on Saturday, police and medical officials said. The blast occurred at a checkpoint not far from an important shrine located among many shops and restaurants in Kerbala, 100 km (70 miles) southwest of Baghdad. The area was crowded at the time. Salim Khadhim, a provincial health spokesman, told Reuters the blast killed 51 people. Khaled al-Ibrahimi, head of the Hussein General Hospital, confirmed the figure. Television images showed a man running down a smoke-filled street holding a lifeless baby above his head. Smoke was rising off the child. Ambulances had rushed to the scene. A suicide car bomber killed 40 people at a crowded bus station in the same area on April 14. Earlier, the powerful Sh'ite cleric and militia leader Moqtada al-Sadr called Bush the Antichrist and urged him to heed calls by the opposition Democrats to withdraw from the chaos of Iraq....
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