Telegraph report.

A roadside bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims killed 44 people in the southern city of Nasiriyah on Thursday, following bombings in Baghdad that killed at least 29.

Officials said 44 people died and 72 were wounded in the attack, which occurred just west of Nasiriyah as pilgrims were walking to the holy shrine city of Karbala for Arbaeen commemorations.

The attack came on the same day two Shiite neighbourhoods in Baghdad were targeted in bombings that left at least 23 people dead.