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(LWJ)– Suicide bombers struck inside Iraq for the third day straight, killing 45 Shia pilgrims and wounding more than 150 as they marched from Baghdad to Karbala today.

The suicide bombers detonated cars packed with explosives at separate checkpoints outside the city of Karbala. “Two cars parked outside the checkpoints to the city exploded at the same time,” Mohammed al Moussawi, the chief of Karbala’s provincial council, told Reuters.

The attacks targeted Shia pilgrims commemorating the death of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohammed. The hundreds of thousands of Shia who march from Baghdad to Karbala have been prime targets of al Qaeda in Iraq in the past. In previous years, al Qaeda suicide and roadside bomb attacks have killed hundreds of Shia pilgrims on their way to Karbala.

Al Qaeda also carried out two other bombings that targeted Shia today. One Iraqi was killed and 10 more were wounded in an IED attack in southern Baghdad, and another Iraqi was killed and 10 more were wounded in an IED attack in Baqubah.

Al Qaeda in Iraq continues its campaign to strike at Iraq’s security forces and Iraqi Shia in an effort to weaken the government and divide Iraqis along sectarian lines. The terror group carried out three other suicide strikes over the past two days.