Bombings in Baghdad and Karbala killed at least 56 people and wounded 78 more Saturday morning, CNN reported, citing police and medical officials.

A car bomb blast in a crowded shopping area of central Karbala, a holy Shiite city about 70 miles southwest of Baghdad, killed at least 43 people and wounded 55, according to an official at Hussein Hospital in Karbala.

The explosion was near a bus station and just 200 yards from the Imam Hussein Holy shrine.

A short time later, a car bomb exploded on the Jadriya bridge, which spans the Tigris River in southern Baghdad, killing at least 10 people and wounding 15 others, Iraqi police said.

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